Le milliardaire Yusaku Maezawa premier touriste autour de la lune en 2023

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Hawthorne, California - 17 September 2018 1. Yusaku Maezawa walks on stage and greets SpaceX CEO Elon Musk 2. Wide of news conference showing rocket design 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Yusaku Maezawa, Billionaire Entrepreneur: "Many of you may be wondering why do I want to go to the moon. What do I want to do there and most of all why did I purchase the entire BFR, entire BFR, very huge. For me, this project is very meaningful. I thought long and hard about how valuable it would be to become the first private passenger to go to the moon. At the same time I thought about how I can give back to the world and how this can contribute to world peace. This is my lifelong dream." 4. Video of rocket plays on stage 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yusaku Maezawa, Billionaire Entrepreneur: "I don't like being alone so I want to share these experiences and things with as many people as possible. So that is why I choose to go to the moon, I choose to go to the moon with artists. With artists. From now, I choose to invite artists from around the world on my journey." 6. Diagram shows moon flight's possible path 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yusaku Maezawa, Billionaire Entrepreneur: "In 2023, as the host, I'd like to invite six to eight artists from around the world to join me on this mission to the moon. These artists will be asked to create something after they return to Earth and these masterpieces will inspire the dreamer within all of us." 8. Maezawa's "Dear Moon" project logo 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO: "He is, I think, the bravest person and the most willing to do so and he was the best adventurer, I think." 10. Musk and Maezawa on stage 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO: "He's very graciously offered to provide those seats to artists and cultural influencers and basically key influencers in society. We better get that flight right. We're gonna definitely be doing everything we possibly can to make sure that it's a good flight." 12. Musk and Maezawa shake hands and walk off stage 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stephen Clark, Editor - Spaceflight Now: "I think we're in a paradigm shift in terms of space flight. It used to be the realm of governments. It's becoming the realm of billionaires and we had two on the stage today making a major announcement about flying around the moon, something that hasn't done in nearly 50 years." 14. "Dear Moon" promo video plays in news camera's viewfinder 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Clark, Editor - Spaceflight Now: "He has a track record. He's done a lot of things that a lot of people thought could not be done and would never happen. I have a skepticism about when it may happen but I've learned not to bet against him." 16. Wide of news conference area with rocket in background STORYLINE: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Monday that he plans to blast off on the first-ever private commercial trip around the moon and will invite six to eight artists, architects, designers and other creative people on the weeklong journey "to inspire the dreamer in all of us." The SpaceX Big Falcon Rocket is scheduled to make the trip in 2023, company founder Elon Musk announced at an event Monday at its headquarters near Los Angeles. Musk said the entrepreneur, founder of Japan's largest retail website and one the country's richest people, will pay "a lot of money" for the trip, but declined to disclose the exact amount. Maezawa came to SpaceX with the idea for the group flight, Musk said. Maezawa didn't immediately say who will be on his guest list for the spaceflight, but in re