{"id":131992,"date":"2021-12-08T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/japanese-billionaire-launches-to-the-iss-aboard-a-soyuz-rocket"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:24:43","slug":"japanese-billionaire-launches-to-the-iss-aboard-a-soyuz-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/japanese-billionaire-launches-to-the-iss-aboard-a-soyuz-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Billionaire Launches to the ISS Aboard a Soyuz Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-billionaire-launches-to-the-iss-aboard-a-soyuz-rocket.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And he will also be the first space tourist to go to the moon in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese billionaire and entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa is on his way to the International Space Station (ISS), <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacestation\/2021\/12\/08\/soyuz-trio-blasts-off-to-station-for-11-day-stay\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">after launching from<\/a> the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard Russia\u2019s Soyuz MS-20 crew ship today, December 8, at 2:38 am ET (07:38 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDream come true,\u201d the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yousuckMZ\/status\/1468383752468725764\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">entrepreneur tweeted<\/a> before boarding the three-seat Soyuz spacecraft that would launch him up into orbit. He is joined by Russian cosmonaut and pilot Alexander Misurkin and film producer Yozo Hirano, who will document the expedition for Maezawa\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p><b>A \u2018dream\u2019 mission for Yuzaku Maezawa<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he will also be the first space tourist to go to the moon in 2023. Japanese billionaire and entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa is on his way to the International Space Station (ISS), after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard Russia\u2019s Soyuz MS-20 crew ship today, December 8, at 2:38 am ET (07:38 GMT). [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}