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Japanese Billionaire Making a Stop on the ISS Before His Big Trip to the Moon on Elon's Rocket
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2823" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/japanese-billionaire-making-a-stop-on-the-iss-before-hi-1846887869" target="_blank"><strong>Japanese Billionaire Making a Stop on the ISS Before His Big Trip to the Moon on Elon's Rocket - Gizmodo</strong></a></p><p></p><p>A Japanese fashion magnate, who <a href="https://gizmodo.com/japanese-billionaire-who-bought-tickets-on-spacexs-star-1846393541" target="_blank">has booked</a> an all-civilian SpaceX flight ‘round the moon for 2023, has now announced that he’s also making an earlier trip this December to the International Space Station. On Thursday, billionaire Yusaku Maezawa <a href="https://twitter.com/yousuckMZ/status/1392789649911730177" target="_blank">tweeted</a>: “Going to the ISS before the Moon <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🚀" title="Rocket :rocket:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f680.png" data-shortname=":rocket:" />.” Sounds perhaps slightly more action-packed than the 2023 moon trip, which will consist entirely of orbiting a rock where nothing happens, and gazing at the Earth, a location where everything happens. Perhaps ponder the fact that money is no good on the moon, and then go home.</p><p></p><p>The trip is facilitated by space tour agency <a href="https://spaceadventures.com/space-adventures-client-yusaku-maezawa-plans-for-mission-to-the-international-space-station/" target="_blank">Space Adventures</a>, which has arranged space tours for a handful of monied clients, primarily tech entrepreneurs, including billionaire engineer Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, and Anousheh Ansari. Maezawa will board the Russian Soyuz MS-20 from Kazakhstan and spend 12 days in space accompanied by a cosmonaut and his personal production assistant.</p><p></p><p>In a statement <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/japanese-tycoon-planning-space-station-visit-moon-trip-77665770" target="_blank">published by</a> ABC News, Maezawa said “I’m so curious, ‘What’s life like in space?’ So, I am planning to find out on my own and share with the world.” He <a href="https://twitter.com/Space_Station" target="_blank">can tweet</a> about it while he’s up there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2823, member: 1"] [URL='https://gizmodo.com/japanese-billionaire-making-a-stop-on-the-iss-before-hi-1846887869'][B]Japanese Billionaire Making a Stop on the ISS Before His Big Trip to the Moon on Elon's Rocket - Gizmodo[/B][/URL] A Japanese fashion magnate, who [URL='https://gizmodo.com/japanese-billionaire-who-bought-tickets-on-spacexs-star-1846393541']has booked[/URL] an all-civilian SpaceX flight ‘round the moon for 2023, has now announced that he’s also making an earlier trip this December to the International Space Station. On Thursday, billionaire Yusaku Maezawa [URL='https://twitter.com/yousuckMZ/status/1392789649911730177']tweeted[/URL]: “Going to the ISS before the Moon 🚀.” Sounds perhaps slightly more action-packed than the 2023 moon trip, which will consist entirely of orbiting a rock where nothing happens, and gazing at the Earth, a location where everything happens. Perhaps ponder the fact that money is no good on the moon, and then go home. The trip is facilitated by space tour agency [URL='https://spaceadventures.com/space-adventures-client-yusaku-maezawa-plans-for-mission-to-the-international-space-station/']Space Adventures[/URL], which has arranged space tours for a handful of monied clients, primarily tech entrepreneurs, including billionaire engineer Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, and Anousheh Ansari. Maezawa[B] [/B]will board the Russian Soyuz MS-20 from Kazakhstan and spend 12 days in space accompanied by a cosmonaut and his personal production assistant. In a statement [URL='https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/japanese-tycoon-planning-space-station-visit-moon-trip-77665770']published by[/URL] ABC News, Maezawa said “I’m so curious, ‘What’s life like in space?’ So, I am planning to find out on my own and share with the world.” He [URL='https://twitter.com/Space_Station']can tweet[/URL] about it while he’s up there. [/QUOTE]
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