• The largest online fashion mall in Japan is the creation of Yusaku Maezawa.
• Earlier, Yusaku Maezawa had been to the space station.
• The first private SpaceX mission to orbit the moon is being led by Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa.

Yusaku Maezawa, the creator of the e-commerce site Zozo Inc., travelled to the International Space Station (ISS) as a tourist in December 2017 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. In 2023, he plans to travel around the moon with Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company SpaceX.

The 47-year-old businessman stated that after speaking with Musk online, he was “able to make a huge statement about space on December 9.” As commercial companies like Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin usher in a new era of space travel for affluent clients, the space enthusiast will likely be the first private passenger on a SpaceX lunar mission with a week-long fly-by planned for 2023. 

Maezawa gained his money by starting the online clothing company Zozo, which was acquired by the internet division of Softbank Group Corp. Shares of Inclusive Inc, which conducts space-related operations using satellite data, rose 11.7% to finish at 1,171 yen in response to Maezawa's tweet. Yusaku Maezawa, the creator of the e-commerce site Zozo Inc (3092.T), travelled to the International Space Station (ISS) as a tourist in December of last year on a Soyuz spacecraft. 

In 2023, he plans to travel around the moon with Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company SpaceX. As commercial companies like Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin usher in a new era of space travel for affluent clients, the space enthusiast will likely be the first private passenger on a SpaceX lunar mission with a week-long fly-by planned for 2023. Maezawa gained his money by starting the online fashion company Zozo, which was acquired by the internet division of Softbank Group Corp. (9984.T).