"I hope each and every one will recognise the responsibility that comes with leaving the Earth, travelling to the Moon and back," says Yusaku Maezawa.
Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano parachuted onto Kazakhstan's steppe along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
The company teamed up with Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa who traveled 248 miles from Earth to deliver the Japanese dishes.
Yusaku Maezawa, a space enthusiast who made his wealth in online fashion, and his production assistant, Yozo Hirano, will spend 12 days aboard the orbital station.
Yusaku Maezawa and his band of merry astronauts will become the first lunar voyagers since the last US Apollo mission in 1972, if SpaceX can pull the trip off.
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private passenger of Elon Musk's SpaceX which is scheduled for blastoff in 2023.
Elon Musk's space transportation company announces fashion magnate, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first private passenger to fly on a monster rocket around the Moon as early as 2023.
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