The assistant of the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, Yozo Hirano, noted that if he had been given such a chance, he would have taken it
MOSCOW, December 22. /tass/. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano, who visited the ISS, admitted that they would like to go into outer space. They reported this during a conference in TASS, which is held in an online format together with Roscosmos and the CPC.
"This time we didn't have such an opportunity, but next time I would also like to try," Maezawa said.
In turn, Hirano noted that if he had been given such a chance, he would have taken it.
On the morning of December 20, cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano landed in the descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft. Due to weather conditions, the helicopters first stayed in Zhezkazgan, and specialists got to the descent vehicle by ground transport. The evacuation began on special search and evacuation vehicles, but later a helicopter took off for the crew members and took them to Zhezkazgan, then they flew to Karaganda on an An-26 plane and from there to the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow.
Misurkin, Maezawa and Hirano have been on the ISS since December 8. On the same day, the station started working on board, the memorandum on the creation of which was signed on November 17 between TASS and Roscosmos. The first TASS correspondent in orbit was the Hero of Russia cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. He talked about life and work at the station, talked with the directors of experiments. You can read his news, as well as view photos and videos on the agency's information resources.
