Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese businessman, will be the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station. The image is from NASA TV.
You can watch the whole thing live on Sunday, when a Japanese billionaire and two colleagues return to Earth from the International Space Station.
A Russian spaceship carrying Yusaku Maezawa, Yozo Hirano, and Alexander Misurkin is scheduled to land in the middle of the night on Sunday. The time is 0318GMT on December 20.
You can watch the departure procedure from the International Station Station, which will start at 3:30 pm. The window below and on Space.com's homepage are courtesy of NASA. Here are some things to watch for.
The first space tourists.
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3 p.m. NASA TV coverage begins at 3:32 pm. The time is 2032
6:30 p.m. NASA TV coverage begins at 6:54 pm. The time is 2354 GMT.
9 p.m. NASA TV coverage begins for deorbit and landing. There is a landing scheduled for 10:00 p.m. The time is Dec. 20.
The crew will return from the space station after nearly 12 days. Their mission was Misurkin's third spaceflight and the first for both Maezawa and Hirano, who organized their trip via the Virginia company Space Adventures. Both of their seats were paid for by Maezawa.
Since 2009, Space Adventures has organized a mission to the International Space Station. The company helped send seven customers on eight trips to the lab. One person flew.
The International Space Station was launched by Yusaku Maezawa, Alexander Misurkin, and Yozo Hirano. They will return to Earth late in the year. The image is from the CPK/Roscosmos.
The small database of information available for non-professional astronauts has been added to by Hirano and Maezawa.
Maezawa plans to make a trip to the moon. The mission is expected to launch in 2023.
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