Rogozin said that the launch of the Soyuz with space tourists is scheduled for December 8

The flight duration will be 12 days, the flight participants will be delivered to the ISS in six hours (4 orbits), he explained.

"The Soyuz MS-20 will be controlled by Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, and Japanese citizens Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano will also be on board," the head of the state corporation wrote in Telegram.

Currently, space flight participants are undergoing training at the TsPK im.

Yuri Gagarin in the Star City, added Rogozin.

Earlier, the general director of Glavkosmos, Dmitry Loskutov, said in an interview with RT that the company was conducting pre-flight training for space tourists to travel to the ISS.

According to him, the price of such flights on Russian ships is lower: “at the end of this year, two Japanese tourists are to fly.

The price is less than $ 55 million. "