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‘Dream come true’: Japanese billionaire blasts off for ISS
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A Japanese billionaire has fulfilled his childhood dream of travelling to space, as one of two passengers onboard a Russian rocket that blasted off towards the International Space Station.
Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of Zozo, a successful online fashion business, and his production assistant, Yozo Hirano, on Wednesday became the first space tourists to travel to the ISS for more than a decade.
But Maezawa, a noted art collector who reportedly has a net worth of $1.9bn (£1.44bn), has said his ambitions do not end there, having signed up for a more ambitious journey around the moon on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket planned for 2023.
On launch day, Maezawa and his crew left their hotel in Baikonur to a Soviet-era song played for all cosmonauts before
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