Currently, two non-professional participants of the flight are on board the ISS - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano
MOSCOW, December 17. /tass/. Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov did not rule out that he could become the next pilot to fly into orbit with space tourists.
"Let's see, maybe I will be the next pilot who will carry space tourists," he said on Match TV.
Currently, two non-professional participants of the flight are on board the ISS - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano. They arrived on board the station on the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft together with cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, who became the first special correspondent of TASS on the ISS.
During the preparation for the launch of the Soyuz MS-20, Skvortsov was part of the backup crew.