TOKYO -- Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa flew into space on Wednesday aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket to visit the International Space Station, the first Japanese tourist to travel to the Earth-orbiting laboratory.
The 12-day mission comes ahead of Maezawa's scheduled flight around the moon in the first commercial lunar mission planned for SpaceX's Starship vehicle in 2023.
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