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  1. Elon Musk’s SpaceX names Japanese billionaire as first moon traveller
  • A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the Moon as early as 2023
  • Maezawa will be the first lunar traveller since the last US Apollo mission in 1972.
  • The first space tourist was Dennis Tito, an American businessman who in 2001 on a Russian spaceship to the International Space Station
  1. Commitment to policies for people of poorer countries: US ranked low
  • The annual commitment to development index (CDI) report is released by Center for Global Development, a Washington-based non-profit think-tank
  • The CDI ranks the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the poorer nations.
  • Sweden tops the list, followed by Denmark and Finland.
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