'Baalveer' actor Dev Joshi selected for a week-long trip around Moon in SpaceX's Starship

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has anunced members of his crew he will be taking for a trip around Moon in a X rocket. With nine core members and two backups, team is part of dearMoon mission which was anunced in 2017 as world’s first all-private lunar endeavour. Interestingly, re is an Indian on this list who is set to become first private traveller from India.

Dev Joshi, star kid featured in TV serial 'Baalveer', is one of team members going on a week-long trip around Moon in 2023. crew was me public by Maezawa, on Friday, who bought all seats of Starship in 2018 to take a team of artists to Moon. 

mission dearMoon was initially planned on a Falcon Heavy rocket but was upgred to mega-rocket Starship in 2018. Starship is fully-reusable launch vehicle X is developing for transporting heavy cargo to Moon and eventually to Mars. Since Starship is yet to fly on its first orbital test flight, dearMoon launch might get delayed by a few months.

'A lot will change for me': Dev Joshi 

Dev Joshi, who will soon join artists from around world for his lunar trip, said, "After this experience, a lot will change for me." Taking to his Instagram, actor shared his excitement about working with an international team. "Life has always surprised me with new opportunities and this is biggest one I can ever think of,"  22-year-old wrote on Instagram. tably, over one million people from 249 countries applied to be a part of mission which would take selected crew to as close as 200 km from lunar surface. 

Accompanying him are eight ors, including Maezawa-- DJ and music producer Steve Aoki, 'Everday Astronaut' Youtuber Tim Dodd, Artist Yemi A.D., Photographers Karim Iliya and Rhiann am, filmmaker Brendan Hall, and musician T.O.P. Besides, dancer Miyu and swboarder Kaitlyn Farrington have been chosen as backup crew members. While all of above are artists, qualifications required to join team were t clarified. 

However, Joshi has h an illustrated acting career which began at of three as he started landing roles in television series, regional cinema, music albums, st shows and vertisements. Kwn for portraying a superhero in TV show 'Baalveer', Joshi was awarded "Bal Shakti Puraskar" (2019), highest civilian hour in India under of 18, by former President of India Ramnath Kovind.