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Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa's space suit is checked before he and his production assistant Yozo Hirano blast off for ISS from Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their journey aboard the three-person Soyuz spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will take just over six hours, capping a banner year that many have seen as a turning point for private space travel. IMAGES
Japanese tourists, relatives, friends, and members of Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's team visit the launchpad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan where a Russian Soyuz rocket launch will send Maezawa and his production assistant Yozo Hirano to the International Space Station, marking Russia's return to space tourism after a decade-long pause that saw the rise of competition from privately held US companies. Their journey aboard the three-person Soyuz spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will take just over six hours, capping a banner year that many have seen as a turning point for private space travel. IMAGES
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other leaders arrive ahead of a meeting during the alliance’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC. IMAGES
Donald Trump leaves the Trump Tower en route to the Manhattan courtroom, where jurors are to begin deliberating on whether to return the first criminal conviction of a former president in his hush money trial. After weeks of testimony from more than 20 witnesses, the piercing glare of the legal spotlight now shifts firmly to the anonymous 12-member panel that holds Trump's fate in its hands. IMAGES
US NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Russian Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, members of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 70-71 main crew, bid farewell to their relatives and visitors gathered ahead of the launch from the Russian leased Baikonur facility, in Kazakhstan. IMAGES
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