Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to fulfil childhood dream with space flight

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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said he could barely contain his excitement a day ahead of blasting off to the International Space Station in a prelude to a more ambitious trip around the moon with

The 46-year-old fashion magnate and art collector has been training at a space centre outside Moscow in recent months before becoming the first space tourist to travel to the ISS in more than a decade.

"I'm excited. I feel like an elementary school student about to go on an outing," Maezawa said at a news conference. The entrepreneur, who was wearing a blue flight suit with a badge reading"world peace", said he had struggled to learn Russian to communicate with his trainers and looked forward to eating sushi when he returns to Earth.

 

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