Yusaku Maezawa, who made his fortune selling fashion on the internet, assures that he has no worries two months after the takeoff of the ship in which he will travel
The Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the next tourist who will be in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS), hopes to play badminton in orbit and assures that he has no worries, two months before takeoff aboard a Russian spacecraft.
This flight, scheduled for December, marks the return of this country to space tourism at a time of tough competition in the sector against private US companies. The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezoson Wednesday sent 90-year-old famous Star Trek actor William Shatner into space for a few minutes.
Roscosmos’s program, with its American partner Space Adventure, is not limited to a short flight, but involves a 12-day stay aboard the ISS. «I have a list of some 100 tasks that I wish to fulfill on board the station, such as playing badminton [con el cosmonauta ruso Alexandre Misurkin]”Maezawa told a press conference at the cosmonaut training center near Moscow.
The billionaire and his assistant Yozo Hirano will take off with Misurkin on December 8 aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The 45-year-old Japanese eccentric, who made his fortune selling fashion online, wants to take eight people to accompany you around the Moon in 2023 with SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company.
Roscosmos and Space Adventures had already collaborated between 2001 and 2009 to send entrepreneurs into space eight times. The companies did not disclose how much they billed Yusaku Maezawa, but according to the magazine Forbes, a ticket would cost between 20 and 35 million dollars.
