KEY POINTS
  • Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, where he'll spend nearly two weeks visiting as a private space tourist.
  • Maezawa booked the spaceflight through U.S. company Space Adventures, which has previously sent seven tourists to the space station on Russian vehicles.
  • Notably, Maezawa's ISS visit comes after he booked a trip to the moon with SpaceX, with his project called "dearMoon" planned to fly on a Starship rocket in 2023.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrives at the International Space Station on Dec. 8, 2021 after launching on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
NASA TV

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, where he'll spend nearly two weeks visiting as a private space tourist.

Maezawa launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft along with production assistant Yozo Hirano and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. The Japanese entrepreneur booked the spaceflight through U.S. company Space Adventures, which has previously sent seven tourists to the space station on Russian vehicles.