Maezawa, 45, that made his fortune in online retail, claimed he prepares to document the objective and also share it with the world on his YouTube network with over 700,000 subscribers.
The Roscosmos room company said Maezawa would certainly make the trip from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with production assistant Yozo Hirano aboard a Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft that is set up for Dec. 8.
” I’m so interested ‘what’s life like in space?’ So, I am preparing to learn on my own and show to the globe on my YouTube channel,” Maezawa said as priced quote by Roscosmos.
The excentric billionaire has formerly revealed plans to take eight people with him on a 2023 mission around the moon aboard a Starship spacecraft developed by SpaceX, the Roscosmos competitor of U.S. billionaire Elon Musk.
Maezawa as well as film producer Hirano will certainly begin roughly 3 months of pre-flight training in June at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, a closed city outside of Moscow, Roscosmos added.
They have currently passed the necessary medical examinations, it stated.
Roscosmos said the flight will last 12 days as well as the team will certainly be led by Cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, who has currently been on 2 explorations to the ISS.
An overall of 8 personal self-funded area vacationers have seen the ISS as well as Maezawa will be the first from Japan.
His flight will also be the first time that 2 of the three places on a Soyuz area rocket will be inhabited by tourists.
” We are excited for Maezawa-san as well as we are honoured to have enabled this opportunity for him to fly to space,” claimed Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, a personal spaceflight business.
It has accepted Roscosmos given that the initial space tourist trip in 2001.
Plans for initial room film function
Roscosmos individually announced Thursday it was sending out a starlet as well as a director to the ISS in October with the goal of making the first function film precede.
The movie, whose working title is “Challenge” is being co-produced by the flamboyant head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, and also state-run network Channel One.
The annoucement adheres to one in 2015 by NASA which verified that it will be joining actor Tom Cruise to make a Hollywood movie on the ISS.
Maezawa will certainly be the initial area vacationer to take a trip to the ISS because 2009 when Canadian Guy Laliberte, co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, traveled to the station.
According to Forbes publication, space vacationers can pay anywhere in between $20 and also $35 million each for 8-12 days precede. The cost of Maezawa’s flight has actually not been disclosed.
The resumption of tourist trips comes after Roscosmos shed its monopoly for shuttling crews to the ISS when a multiple-use SpaceX rocket last year effectively supplied NASA astronauts to room.
The market is meanwhile beset with corruption, consisting of numerous scandals over the building of the new Vostochny launchpad in the Far East.
Russia released the first fabricated satellite on Oct. 4, 1957. The Soviets maintained their lead in the preliminary years of the race.
They flaunted the first manned flight to space by Gagarin on April 12, 1961, the first spacewalk 4 years later on by Alexei Leonov and the initial lunar probe in 1966. Yet the United States defeat them to the moon with the first manned touchdown in 1969.