42-year-old Nigerian to tour moon with Japanese billionaire

A Nigerian, Yemi Akinyemi, has been selected to travel to the moon in 2023.

The 41-year-old Czech choreographer, will be one of the eight crew members traveling around the Moon with Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa’s team aboard one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets.

The eight passengers Yusaku Maezawa wants to go with him on his voyage around the moon in SpaceX’s Starship was announced four years after he first said he would.

Maezawa pledged funding for a mission in 2018 to enable creatives on par with the late Pablo Picasso or Michael Jackson to travel beyond Earth orbit.

Some of the individuals he chose are utilizing artistic mediums that weren’t around when Picasso was at his best.

Out of more than a million people who expressed interest through Maezawa’s DearMoon website from 249 countries and territories, the eight crew members and two alternates were selected.