Space tourists from Japan to fly to ISS in December

Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft in December this year.

According to Space Adventures, his business partner Yozo Hirano will also go to the ISS.

Japanese astrotourists have already begun preparations for the flight.

It is noted that they plan to fly to the ISS on the Russian Soyuz MS-20 from the Baikonur cosmodrome on December 8, 2021.

Earlier it was reported that Roscosmos and NASA have created a working group to search for air leaks on the ISS.