Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire, has landed in Kazakhstan after a 12-day space flight.
HIGHLIGHTS
On December 8, Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa became the first person to go into space.
Maezawa is the first private passenger on SpaceX's voyage to the moon in 2023.
Yusaku Maezawa demonstrated how to prepare tea in zero gravity to his followers.
WHY IN NEWS
Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese millionaire, returned to Earth on Monday following a 12-day voyage into space, completing a test run for his planned trip around the moon in 2023 with Elon Musk's SpaceX. The 46-year-old fashion mogul and art collector, who launched with his aide Yozo Hirano and Russian astronaut Alexander Misurkin from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on December 8, landed on the Kazakh steppe. Maezawa, a space enthusiast, travelled to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Soyuz spacecraft, becoming the first space tourist to do so in more than a decade.
Maezawa, one of Japan's most colourful public personalities, kept his social media fans delighted from orbit by shooting images of his home prefecture of Chiba, demonstrating how to prepare tea in zero gravity, and bemoaning his lack of new underwear. At the landing location around 150 kilometres south east of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, the entrepreneur returned to snowy circumstances on Earth, with precipitation and sub-zero temperatures. In 2023, Maezawa will be the first private passenger on a SpaceX moon mission, as commercial enterprises such as Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin usher in a new era of space travel for the rich.
The entrepreneur, who sold his online fashion company Zozo to SoftBank in 2019, is looking for eight individuals to join him on a mission to the moon in 2023. Applicants must pass medical exams and interviews.
Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese millionaire, is currently stationed on the International Space Station (ISS). The 46-year-old is the first self-paying visitor to visit the International Space Station since 2009, and it looks like his trip was well worth the money. Anyone would be envious of the vistas he recorded from the International Space Station. Maezawa tweeted a time-lapse video of the Earth seen from the International Space Station. 'This is precisely one whole orbit around Earth,' he added. Breathtaking.” As the Earth revolves on its axis, the solar panels on the space station adapt to the Sun's light, revealing blue waters and white clouds.
While Maezawa is having a great time in space, some people back home are criticising him for paying an exorbitant fee for something he might have used for a greater cause. The cost of his flight into space is unknown.Meanwhile, Maezawa's time-lapse film has received over 4 lakh views. Maezawa is travelling to the ISS with a production assistant to capture the entire expedition. He's also posting films to his YouTube page and other media accounts that depict what life is like on the space station. Maezawa previously uploaded a video showing astronauts in orbit responding to nature's call. Living on the International Space Station (ISS) necessitates extensive preparation since the space station travels at such a fast rate in orbit that personnel aboard see 16 sunrises and sunsets every day. Maezawa launched into orbit aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan on December 8 and arrived at the International Space Station later that day. Space Adventures, located in Virginia, organised the billionaire's journey to the International Space Station. From 2001 to 2009, the business flew seven previous guests to the station.
Yusaku Maezawa is a business entrepreneur from Japan and the creator of Zozotown, the country's largest online fashion mall. Maezawa's money comes from the retail fashion industry. Maezawa is the 30th richest person in Japan, according to a Forbes list from 2021. He's also scheduled a trip around the Moon on Elon Musk's Starship.
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