{"id":522877,"date":"2018-09-18T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=af1228adde4069d03dda7a7f3f642074"},"modified":"2018-09-18T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T06:59:00","slug":"japanese-billionaire-books-first-moonshot-aboard-spacexs-big-falcon-rocket-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=522877","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Billionaire Books First Moonshot Aboard SpaceX&#8217;s &#8216;Big Falcon Rocket&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/09\/18\/ap_18261097654026_wide-c94dc2d20fb20b3d7acc22535838f4d88ab6e7b4.jpg?s=600' alt='SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk, left, shakes hands with Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, right, on Monday, after announcing that he will be the first private passenger on a trip around the moon.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Yusaku Maezawa would be the first person since 1972 to travel around the moon and the first-ever private citizen to do it. He was introduced at SpaceX headquarters near Los Angeles Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Chris Carlson\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=649037381' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yusaku Maezawa would be the first person since 1972 to travel around the moon and the first-ever private citizen to do it. He was introduced at SpaceX headquarters near Los Angeles Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3128,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522878,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522877\/revisions\/522878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}