Indian TV artist Dev Joshi to accompany Yusaku Maezawa for a trip around Moon

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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has picked Indian TV actor Dev Joshi to accompany him around for a trip around the moon on a private SpaceX flight as early as next year. Dev Joshi is best known for portraying the role of Baal Veer in Sony Sab's Baal Veer and Baalveer Returns.

Yusaku Maezawa has also  picked American DJ Steve Aoki ,Korean rapper TOP,YouTuber Tim Dodd, Irish photographer Rhiannon Adam, American documentary filmmaker Brendan Hall, UK photographer Karim Iliya, Czech dancer Yemi AD  for his  private SpaceX flight.

In 2018 ,the Japanese fashion mogul booked a space flight to the moon with the Elon Musk Space Exploration Technologies Corporation also known as SpaceX  . The company is developing a new generation rocket named Starship which will take tourists around the moon. However the rocket is yet to be tested.

Maezawa has already been to space. In December 2021, he flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian Soyuz rocket. He lived on the ISS for a little less than two weeks.