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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.
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
The crew of the first fully private mission to the International Space Station departs the orbiting laboratory to head back to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.
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.
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