The Falcon 9 carried to orbit 64 spacecraft, in particular 15 Micro satellites and 49 cubesats, from 34 different organisations from 17 countries.
Elon Musk said there's "70 per cent chance that he will go to Mars", despite a "good chance" of him not surviving either on his way or after landing.
As part of the preparation, the space agency will first shoot out a test flight on January 7.
Instead of upgrading Falcon 9 for more reusability, SpaceX was now focusing on "accelerating BFR (Big Falcon Rocket)".
Elon Musk-founded private spaceflight company SpaceX on Sunday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on land after delivering an Argentinian earth-observation satellite from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The photos will be sent as part of the "Launch Your Photo into Deep Space Orbit" reward on SpaceX rockets.
It is the first crewed mission by the US since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. NASA astronauts currently use Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and its contract is set to expire in November 2019.
Maezawa said he wants his guests for the lunar orbit "to see the moon up close, and the Earth in full view, and create work to reflect their experience."
The tourist will fly in the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) being designed to carry people into deep space, the Elon Musk led company said in a tweet.
The spacecraft lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket on June 29 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The spacecraft is expected to reach the International Space Station on July 2.
The satellite is one of the world's first attempts to tackle the build-up of dangerous space debris orbiting the Earth.
Twitterati is praising renowned Pakistani educational activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai over her hilarious tweets to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
"SpaceX will probably build 30 to 40 rocket cores for 300 missions over 5 years. Then the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) takes over and Falcon retires", says Musk.
This latest version of the Falcon 9 was supposed to blast off on Thursday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, carrying Bangladesh's first satellite, which would bring the internet to all corners of the country.
TESS has been fitted with four wide-field cameras that will give the satellite a field-of-view covering 85 per cent of our entire sky.
SpaceX is planning to launch in the wee hours of Tuesday its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
"First two Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A & B, deployed and communicating to Earth stations," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted.
Earlier scheduled for February 17, SpaceX delayed the launch, saying more time was needed for final checks of the Falcon 9 rocket's upgraded payload fairing.
The three boosters and 27 engines roared to life at Kennedy Space Center, where thousands gathered to watch the launch which had been delayed by high wind.
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