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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa blasted off on a self-funded mission to the International Space Station Wednesday, joining a growing list of billionaires to journey out into space and reviving tourist travel to the ISS ahead of a planned trip around the moon with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The journey marks the revival of Russia’s space tourism industry—it is the program’s first in 12 years,The fashion mogul spent around 3 months training for the mission, which he said will finally fulfill a childhood “dream,” the
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