Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa heads to the International Space Station in December
The eccentric entrepreneur will be the next space tourist. In 2023, he will also go on a trip around the moon with SpaceX.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced Thursday, May 13, that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yuzu Hirano will be the next tourists aboard the International Space Station, which will put the two men into orbit in December. “The duration of the space flight will be 12 days, and the crew commander will be astronaut Roscosmos Alexander Mysorkin,” the agency said on its website, noting that crew training will begin in June for the flight scheduled for December 8th.
A journey around the moon in 2023
The eccentric Japanese billionaire, who made his fortune online, also plans to take eight people to accompany him on a space tourism trip around the moon, scheduled for 2023 with SpaceX, the space company inElon Musk. Yusaku Maezawa commented on the Space Edition. Adventures: “I’m so curious about life in space that I planned to try it out on my own and share it with the world on my YouTube channel.”
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Roscosmos’ resumption of these tourist flights to the International Space Station comes as it lost in 2020 its monopoly on manned flights in the face of the success of SpaceX, losing part of the unexpected financial gain represented by seats purchased by US space agencies. European.
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