TOKYO -- Japanese billionaire space tourist Yusaku Maezawa and his two crewmates returned to Earth on Monday, capping his 12-day visit to the International Space Station in a feat that has highlighted the arrival of the age of space tourism.
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying Maezawa, his video producer, Yozo Hirano, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin touched down on the steppes of Kazakhstan at around the scheduled landing time of 9:13 a.m. local time (03:13 GMT).
