Japanese billionaire cancels private flight around the moon on SpaceX's giant Starship

A collage of 11 people selected to fly to the moon on the dearMoon mission.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa won't shoot for the moon on SpaceX's Starship after all. 

Maezawa, who booked a private trip around the moon on SpaceX's Starship megarocket in 2018, has now scrapped the project — which he called dearMoon — after the rocket wasn't ready to fly him and eight hand-picked artists in 2023.