Yesterday, a Japanese billionaire launched a Russian missile to spend 12 days in outer space aboard the International Space Station, on a trip that returns Russia to the space tourism sector, in which it previously lost to private American companies such as “SpaceX”, as the renewed interest in the sector promises financial gains. potential.
Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, 46, who made his fortune in the online clothing trade sector, and his assistant Yuzu Hirano took off from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 07:38 GMT, as scheduled. The flight takes six hours, and the spacecraft will dock with the Russian part of the International Space Station by 13:41 GMT.
During the day, billionaire cosmonaut and cosmonaut Alexander Misorkin, who commands a Soyuz rocket, left their Baikonur hotel with a smile on their faces to the sound of a Soviet song usually broadcast before cosmonauts take off. Part of it was sung in Japanese, and Maezawa expressed on Twitter, “Dreams come true.”
Yesterday, a Japanese billionaire launched a Russian missile to spend 12 days in outer space aboard the International Space Station, on a trip that returns Russia to the space tourism sector, in which it previously lost to private American companies such as “SpaceX”, as the renewed interest in the sector promises financial gains. potential.
Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, 46, who made his fortune in the online clothing trade sector, and his assistant Yuzu Hirano took off from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 07:38 GMT, as scheduled. The flight takes six hours, and the spacecraft will dock with the Russian part of the International Space Station by 13:41 GMT.
During the day, billionaire cosmonaut and cosmonaut Alexander Misorkin, who commands a Soyuz rocket, left their Baikonur hotel with a smile on their faces to the sound of a Soviet song usually broadcast before cosmonauts take off. Part of it was sung in Japanese, and Maezawa expressed on Twitter, “Dreams come true.”
Yesterday, a Japanese billionaire launched a Russian missile to spend 12 days in outer space aboard the International Space Station, on a trip that returns Russia to the space tourism sector, in which it previously lost to private American companies such as “SpaceX”, as the renewed interest in the sector promises financial gains. potential.
Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, 46, who made his fortune in the online clothing trade sector, and his assistant Yuzu Hirano took off from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 07:38 GMT, as scheduled. The flight takes six hours, and the spacecraft will dock with the Russian part of the International Space Station by 13:41 GMT.
During the day, billionaire cosmonaut and cosmonaut Alexander Misorkin, who commands a Soyuz rocket, left their Baikonur hotel with a smile on their faces to the sound of a Soviet song usually broadcast before cosmonauts take off. Part of it was sung in Japanese, and Maezawa expressed on Twitter, “Dreams come true.”
Yesterday, a Japanese billionaire launched a Russian missile to spend 12 days in outer space aboard the International Space Station, on a trip that returns Russia to the space tourism sector, in which it previously lost to private American companies such as “SpaceX”, as the renewed interest in the sector promises financial gains. potential.
Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, 46, who made his fortune in the online clothing trade sector, and his assistant Yuzu Hirano took off from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 07:38 GMT, as scheduled. The flight takes six hours, and the spacecraft will dock with the Russian part of the International Space Station by 13:41 GMT.
During the day, billionaire cosmonaut and cosmonaut Alexander Misorkin, who commands a Soyuz rocket, left their Baikonur hotel with a smile on their faces to the sound of a Soviet song usually broadcast before cosmonauts take off. Part of it was sung in Japanese, and Maezawa expressed on Twitter, “Dreams come true.”