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People with "power and influence" should visit space to change their view of the Earth, says Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa after returning from the International Space Station. Together with assistant Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Maezawa spent 12 days aboard the ISS, where they made videos documenting daily life in space for his one million YouTube subscribers.
Maezawa, his assistant and a Russian cosmonaut spent 12 days on the orbiting laboratory where the Japanese tourists documented their daily life aboard the ISS for Maezawa's popular YouTube channel.
A Soyuz MS-20 capsule undocks from the International Space Station, with Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano onboard, after a 12-day mission. IMAGES
A Russian spacecraft carrying a Japanese billionaire docks with the International Space Station, marking the country's return to space tourism after a decade-long pause that saw the rise of competition from the United States. Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their journey aboard the three-person Soyuz spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin took just over six hours, capping a banner year that many have seen as a turning point for private space travel. IMAGES
A Soyuz MS-20 rocket is mounted on a launchpad in Kazakhstan's Baikonur ahead of a flight that will take Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the ISS on December 8, 2021.