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08 dicembre 2021 alle 08:42aggiornato il 08 dicembre 2021 alle 09:37
The Soyuz took off with the billionaire Maezawa on board: the ISS destination
The mission marks the return to space tourism, which has been stopped for 10 years
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Shortly after 8.30 (Italian time) the Soyuz shuttle took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, carrying the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the International Space Station.
46, one of the richest men in Japan, is accompanied by his assistant Yozo Hirano. The journey will take six hours.
The mission puts an end to a ten-year hiatus in the Russian space tourism program that hasn't accepted tourists since 2009: the last passenger in that year was the Canadian co-founder of Cirque du Soleil Guy Laliberte.
(Unioneonline / ss)
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