--- title: "20,000 Apply to Be Billionaire’s Girlfriend, Get Free Moon Trip" description: "Over 20,000 people have offered to become Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's flight companion on his trip around the Moon and \"life partner.\"" date: "2020-01-16" modified: "2020-01-16" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/apply-japanese-billionaire-moon-girlfriend" categories: - "Astronomy" - "Moon" - "Space" tags: - "SpaceX" - "Starship" - "the digest" --- # 20,000 Apply to Be Billionaire’s Girlfriend, Get Free Moon Trip ![Over 20,000 people have offered to become Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's flight companion on his trip around the Moon and "life partner."]() *\Image: SpaceX/Victor Tangermann\* ## Ready to Mingle Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is single and ready to mingle — and he evidently hates traveling alone. Over 20,000 people have offered to become Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's romantic companion on his trip around the Moon, [*Reuters* reports](). ## Travel Companion In September 2018, SpaceX [announced]() that Maezawa would be a passenger on the company's commercial Starship rocket as it makes its way around the Moon and back some time in 2023, if all goes according to plan. Now, Maezawa is looking for a special someone to keep him company. Earlier this month, Japanese video streaming website AbemaTV [announced]() it's planning to follow Maezawa on his hunt to find a "life partner," as [Maezawa wrote]() on the company's website, as part of a reality TV show called "Full Moon Lovers." ## Training Montage All 20,000 applicants had to submit a Google form, which included a "love diagnostic test," *Reuters* reports, asking them such peculiar questions as "If you rode in a private jet where would you go?" and "If Maezawa farted in front of you what would you say?" The billionaire sold a 30 percent stake of his online fashion retail company Zozo in September, receiving a cool $2.3 billion in cash to get ready for his journey around the Moon, [according to *Business Insider*](). **READ MORE:** [More than 20,000 people have entered the reality TV competition to become a Japanese billionaire's girlfriend and accompany him on a SpaceX flight to the moon]() \[*Business Insider*\] **More on Maezawa:** *[Billionaire Seeks “Life Partner” to Join Him on SpaceX Moon Trip]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()