December 20, 2021

Yusaku Maezawa, Alexander Misurkin, and Yozo Hirano on the International Space Station (Image NASA TV)

A few hours ago, cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, and Yozo Hirano returned to Earth on the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, which landed in Kazakhstan, after spending 12 days on the International Space Station, where they arrived on December 8. It was a space tourism journey set up in an agreement between the private company Space Adventures and the Russian space agency Roscosmos.