Japanese space tourist Yozo Hirano sits inside a bus as he departs for a launch to the International Space Station (ISS) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spaceship, which will carry Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa to the ISS together with his assistant Yozo Hirano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, is scheduled to lift off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 07:38 GMT on December 8. Their return to Earth is expected on December 20.
- Package: Kazakhstan Russia Space
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 08.12.2021
- Date published: 08.12.2021
- Author: Sergei Savostyanov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: POOL
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3489x2183px, 4.6Mb
- Job-ID: b805b9aa6b65bedb