<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A commercial DJ, K-pop rapper, and a space YouTuber are to go on a trip around the Moon, after they were picked by a Japanese billionaire for a private SpaceX flight.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Businessman Yusaku Maezawa revealed his crew on Friday after a global search for creative individuals last year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">American DJ Steve Aoki and Korean star TOP are the most high-profile picks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The flight, scheduled for next year, could be the first lunar journey by humans since 1972.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The proposed fly-by would see a spacecraft circle the moon, coming within 200km (124 miles) of the surface. The trip would take eight days from launch to return.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, US regulators are yet to give permission for the Starship rocket from Elon Musk's SpaceX company that the crew is supposed to travel on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ship has not even been approved for an orbital journey around the Earth and has been grounded for the past 18 months in Texas, after it completed a test launch in May 2021. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>