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The first private voyage of SpaceX’s planned BFR rocket will be the ultimate artist’s retreat. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on 17 September that Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire and art curator who founded Japan’s largest online clothing retailer, will be the first passenger on the enormous rocket, and he’s planning on making the voyage around the moon a work of art.
“I would like to invite six to eight artists from around the world …