{"id":21855,"date":"2023-11-16T00:49:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dearmoon-benefactor-shares-delay-to-its-starship-mission-which-we-all-saw-coming\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T00:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T16:49:48","slug":"dearmoon-benefactor-shares-delay-to-its-starship-mission-which-we-all-saw-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dearmoon-benefactor-shares-delay-to-its-starship-mission-which-we-all-saw-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"dearMoon benefactor shares delay to its Starship mission (which we all saw coming)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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dearMoon no longer has an expected launch date<\/h2>\n

The dearMoon mission was formally announced in 2018 and would fly a group of artist around the Moon on SpaceX\u2018s Starship rocket. Being paid for by Japanese entrepreneur and art collector, Yusaku Maezawa or MZ, after not being able to fly around the Moon in a Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon Heavy.<\/p>\n

The flight was slated to take place in 2023, with MZ choosing a crew of artist and other creatives that wouldn\u2019t normally have a chance to go to space. Crew submissions began in 2021 and in December 2022 MZ announced the eight crew members that would join him on a week long lunar trip.<\/p>\n

dearMoon stated that crew training would begin shortly for a flight and per updates occasionally from MZ and other crew members, training seems to have already begun.<\/p>\n

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