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First Private Passenger on Lunar BFR Mission [Livestream]

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    Eylrid
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    Website for the project: https://dearmoon.earth/ A trip around the Moon beats the pants off of the suborbital space tourism Blue Origin and Virgin are working on. Yusaku Maezawa seems like a cool...

    Website for the project: https://dearmoon.earth/

    A trip around the Moon beats the pants off of the suborbital space tourism Blue Origin and Virgin are working on.

    Yusaku Maezawa seems like a cool guy. I like that he is making it about art that we can all enjoy, rather than just a billion's pleasure cruise. I wonder who he'll take. Maybe James Cameron for film director? Or Ron Howard so if anything goes wrong he can make an Apollo 13 sequel from a first person perspective.

    If John Lennon could have seen the curvature of the Earth,
    what kind of songs would he have written?

    Imagine already falls pretty well into that vein.

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    1. spctrvl
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      Yeah I was super thrilled with that. Taking a bunch of artists to the moon for free, just to see what they make, was way better than my best expectations. It's crazy to think that, with film...

      Yusaku Maezawa seems like a cool guy. I like that he is making it about art that we can all enjoy, rather than just a billion's pleasure cruise. I wonder who he'll take. Maybe James Cameron for film director? Or Ron Howard so if anything goes wrong he can make an Apollo 13 sequel from a first person perspective.

      Yeah I was super thrilled with that. Taking a bunch of artists to the moon for free, just to see what they make, was way better than my best expectations.

      It's crazy to think that, with film budgets being what they are, filming on location in space is going to be totally within the realm of possibility in a few years.

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  2. spctrvl
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    Link to the livestream announcement of the first passenger for BFR's lunar flyby in a couple years, as well as (presumably) elaborations on the design updates seen in recent renders. Stream starts...

    Link to the livestream announcement of the first passenger for BFR's lunar flyby in a couple years, as well as (presumably) elaborations on the design updates seen in recent renders. Stream starts at 9:00 EST/1:00 UTC. I'm not 100% sure whether this belongs in ~science or ~tech, since this isn't a mission of discovery or anything, but tech seems more focused on electronics.

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