For the sake of businessman Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant, a whole ship with an astronaut was bought
A real tourist boom is expected by the end of the year on the ISS. All “travelers” will be lucky by Roscosmos. In addition to the film group, which is expected to start on October 5, on October 8, two tourists are scheduled to depart from Japan, accompanied by the only professional cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
MK has already written about filming the film in space and how many in the industry are unhappy with the flight of the film crew, because of which two members of the Russian cosmonaut corps had to postpone the planned flights. As for the flight of two space tourists from Japan, this is a different matter.
According to “MK”, the entire ship, including participation in the flight of a professional cosmonaut, was bought by a travel company. This is the Soyuz MS-20, which will be used by the Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa with his assistant Yozo Hirano.
The duration of the space flight, according to Roskosmos, will be 12 days. In June of this year, Maezawa and Hirano, who recently successfully passed the medical examination, will begin pre-flight training, which will take about three months and will be carried out at the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu.A. Gagarin in Star City.
“I am very interested in what it is like to be in space. So I personally plan to find out and share my impressions with the world on my YouTube channel, ”said Maezawa.
Yusaku Maezawa is the CEO of a Japanese online company and art collector. His partner, Yozo Hirano, is the casting director of a photographic group working for Maezawa’s company. On the ISS, Hirano will be responsible for lighting Yusaku Maezawa’s flight.
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