SpaceX Starship Ticket Holder Teases 'Big Update' for March 2 - Gizmodo

Maezawa has an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to be the company’s first civilian passenger to the Moon, whenever that actually happens, and he wants to put other civilians in lunar orbit by 2023.

And it’s tough to guess whether artists will come back from lunar orbit with better ideas any more than they’ll come back with an exotic space disease that will finally wipe out humanity.

But it’s worth asking how our attitudes about space travel can change the course of history, as they very clearly did in the 1950s and ‘60s, though not always in the ways we had hoped.

Perhaps it’s time for a new age of earnest longing for travel in space.

It may not always change it for the better, but after the past year of living through a pandemic and a neo-fascist uprising, it’s hard to see how it could get any wore!