After spending 12 days aboard the International Space Station, a Japanese tycoon, his producer, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on 20 December.
Since 2009, Maezawa and Hirano have been the first self-paying guests to visit the space station.
Misurkin, on the other hand, was on his third space trip.Before them, in October 2021, Russian actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko spent 12 days on the space station to make the world’s first movie in space. Roscosmos, Russia’s space corporation, financed this project.
Seven space tourists flew to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft between 2001 and 2009.