Japanese billionaire Maezawa blasts off to International Space Station
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday in his first space flight, a voyage he sees as a dry-run for his planned trip around the moon with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in 2023. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying the 46-year-old fashion magnate and art collector bistrogarcon successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and will reach the ISS in about six hours, Russian space agency Roscosmos said.…