A Russian spacecraft carrying two Japanese civilians, including businessman Yusaku Maezawa, was launched from Kazakhstan on the 8th after 4:30 pm Japan time.
I am planning to stay at the International Space Station for the first time as a Japanese civilian and make a space trip for about 12 days.
Yusaku Maezawa, a businessman, and Yozo Hirano, an officer of an affiliated company, boarded the Russian spacecraft "Soyuz" with a Russian astronaut on the 8th.
The rocket carrying Soyuz was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:38 pm Japan time.
The spacecraft will be docked to the International Space Station after this, and Maezawa and his colleagues plan to stay at the International Space Station for the first time as a Japanese civilian and make a space trip for about 12 days.
The total number of Japanese who went to space with this launch will be 14.
While staying in space, he wants to conduct experiments recruited from the general public and distribute them on the Internet, and is planning to return to Earth on the 20th of this month, Japan time.