A Japanese billionaire and businessman Yusaku Maezawa, is at the moment on his journey for the International Space Station (ISS) after taking off out of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-20, a crew vessel on the eighth of December within the morning at 02:38 ET (07:38 GMT).
“A dream come true,” the entrepreneur tweeted earlier than taking off on his three-seat Soyuz spacecraft, which is able to take him to house. He’s with Russian pilot and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin and movie producer Yozo Hirano to report the journey to Maezawa’s YouTube channel.
After the Soyuz crew arrives on the house station, Maezawa has an inventory of issues he wish to do in house, resembling enjoying golf. The Japanese billionaire who earned his wealth through e-commerce companies, together with trend firm Zozotown is predicted to spend 11 days on the ISS after which return to Earth. The billionaire is the primary customer to take off for the ISS in the previous couple of years.
All of that is, partially, to help Maezawa to organize to be the primary individual to journey to the moon’s orbit utilizing SpaceX’s dearMoon program that can see him fly into house on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2023. In the primary, it’s an achievement of his lifelong dream of going into house.
Maezawa, a maverick billionaire, is on fairly good phrases with the house billionaire Elon Musk. Yusaku was a drummer within the punk group, and, in 2013, the billionaire launched a tv present that geared toward discovering him a girlfriend to accompany him in house. However, it was later canceled. Maezawa has additionally revealed in March that he was searching for eight individuals who would be part of the journey to the moon with out the expense, however they need to should be professionals who can report his journey magnificently.
To put together for the ISS mission, Maezawa needed to endure an intense coaching routine earlier than the launch. This concerned sleeping on an inclined mattress and being spun in circles in chairs. The Japanese billionaire has in contrast this much like “torture” on social media and posted coaching photos.
Source: interestingengineering
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