Moscow – Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant, Yozo Hirano, will be the future tourists to journey to the Worldwide Place Station (ISS), Russia’s space agency Roscosmos claimed Thursday.
Maezawa and Hirano will journey aboard a Russian “Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft that is scheduled for start on Dec. 8, 2021, from the Baikonur cosmodrome” in Kazakhstan, the company claimed in a statement.
Maezawa, 45, who designed his fortune in on the web retail, also options to participate in a 2023 mission all around the moon aboard a Starship spacecraft of SpaceX, the Roscosmos rival of U.S. billionaire Elon Musk.
Maezawa and film producer Hirano, who will be documenting the mission, will commence pre-flight schooling in June at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Instruction Center in Star Town, a shut town exterior of Moscow, Roscosmos additional.
It explained that the flight will final 12 times and the crew will be led by Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
“I’m so curious ‘what’s life like in room?’ So, I am arranging to uncover out on my own and share with the world on my YouTube channel,” Maezawa claimed, as quoted by Roscosmos.
It will be the very first time that two of the three places on a Soyuz house rocket will be occupied by tourists.
The previous time Roscosmos took a vacationer to the ISS was in 2009, with the flight of Canadian Male Laliberte, co-founder of Cirque du Soleil.
The resumption of these tourist flights will come as Roscosmos dropped its monopoly for ferrying crews to the ISS following a reusable SpaceX rocket past 12 months effectively shipped NASA astronauts to place.
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