Blastoff! Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa heads to space station

Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, his production assistant Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin launched to the International Space Station aboard Russia s Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft on Dec. 8, 2021. The trio lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos