Japanese billionaire Maezawa trains in Russia ahead of space trip
Maezawa plans to become the first Japanese space tourist to visit the International Space Station Read more.
US firm sees ‘exciting’ moment as space tourism booms
As competition in space tourism heats up, one of the first companies to offer space travel to fee-paying customers is launching a comeback by blasting into orbit with a Japanese billionaire. The US-based [...]
America’s Only Second-Generation Astronaut Was Told He’d Never Go to Space. He Made It Anyway.
“He really is one of the founders of this industry,” says Tom Shelley, president of Space Adventures (Garriott has left the company). “He’s helped to break down the barriers between professional and private [...]
First space tourist: I was euphoric the whole time
Dennis Tito paid $20 million to go to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft in 2001. Read more.
Jeff Bezos went to space in 2021? A Microsoft employee did it in 2007.
He did so with the help of space tourism company Space Adventures, Inc. He was not only a space tourist, which is what all the Bezos and Branson fuss is about, but he [...]
Japanese tycoon planning space station visit, then moon trip
Maezawa has bought two seats on a Russian Soyuz capsule. He'll blast off in December on the 12-day mission with his production assistant and a professional cosmonaut. Read more.