{"id":15546,"date":"2018-09-18T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15546"},"modified":"2018-09-18T18:27:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T18:27:53","slug":"meet-yusaku-maezawa-first-spacex-moon-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15546","title":{"rendered":"Meet Yusaku Maezawa, first SpaceX moon tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"75\">\n<p>There is now a face and a name for the man who hopes to become the first paying passenger to fly to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>The US company, SpaceX, has said Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire is its first customer.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old online retailer said it has been his lifelong dream to go to space.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese billionaire pitched an idea to the California-based company: He wants to make it an artistic collective experience.<\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s inviting up to eight other people &#8211; including artists, designers and architects to join him, in what would be a historic moment.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Victoria Gatenby reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a face and a name for the man who hopes to become the first paying passenger to fly to the moon. The US company, SpaceX, has said Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire is its first customer. The 42-year-old online retailer said it has been his lifelong dream to go to space. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}