Billionaire becomes Japan’s first space tourist

Elon Musk speaks as Yusaku Maezawa, founder and president of Start Today, looks on at an event at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, this week. Picture: BLOOMBERG

The 46-year-old fashion magnate blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday on a Soyuz spacecraft taking him to the International Space Station for a 12-day trip. “I feel like a kid waiting for a school trip,” Maezawa said at an earlier news conference. Maezawa, also the first space tourist to travel to the ISS in more than a decade, has spent months tweeting about his planned sojourns beyond earth’s atmosphere, using the social-media platform to recruit fellow space tourists and even find a life partner to travel with him on the lunar trip scheduled for 2023.

The mogul, who skipped college and joined a rock band before amassing his wealth, has also been posting footage of his training sessions at a space centre outside Moscow. The trip on the Russian Soyuz MS-20 is estimated to cost more than $88m for Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano, according to estimates in local media.“My dream is finally coming true,” said Maezawa, who returns to Earth on December 20.

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