Russia to 配達する Japanese 億万長者 to the ISS
Japanese 億万長者 Yusaku Maezawa is 始める，決める to 爆破 off from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the International Space 駅／配置する for a 12 day stay
A ロシアの ロケット／急騰する will on Wednesday send a Japanese 億万長者 to the International Space 駅／配置する, 場内取引員／株価 the nation's return to space 観光旅行，事業 after a １０年間-long pause that saw the rise of 競争 from 個人として held US companies.
Online fashion 大君 Yusaku Maezawa and his 生産／産物 assistant Yozo Hirano will 爆破 off from the Russia-賃貸し（する）d Baikonur cosmodrome in カザフ共和国 at 0738 GMT.
Their 旅行 船内に the three-person Soyuz 宇宙船 操縦するd by （ロシアの）宇宙飛行士 Alexander Misurkin will take just over six hours, capping a 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する year that many have seen as a turning point for 私的な space travel.
On 開始する，打ち上げる day, Maezawa and his 乗組員 left their hotel in Baikonur to a Soviet-時代 song played for all （ロシアの）宇宙飛行士s ahead of their flights. The song, about （ロシアの）宇宙飛行士s 行方不明の home, was sung 部分的に／不公平に in Japanese.
操縦するd by （ロシアの）宇宙飛行士 Alexander Misurkin, the Soyuz MS-20 宇宙船 wil l take just over six hours to reach the 軌道ing space 駅／配置する
Maezawa's family and friends -- some 持つ／拘留するing Japanese 旗s -- waved him off as he was driven off to get his spacesuit fitted.
"Dream come true," the 大君 tweeted on Wednesday morning.
Fellow 億万長者s Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson all made 打開 商業の 観光旅行，事業 flights this year, 破産した／（警察が）手入れするing into a market Russia is keen to defend.
After ドッキングする／減らす／ドックに入れるing at the Poisk module of the ロシアの segment of the ISS, the trio will spend 12 days on the 駅／配置する. The Japanese tourists 計画（する） to 文書 their daily life 船内に the ISS to 株 on Maezawa's popular YouTube channel.
The 46-year-old 億万長者 has 始める，決める out 100 仕事s to 完全にする while on board, 含むing hosting a badminton tournament in 軌道.
The ISS is home to an international 乗組員 of seven people 含むing two ロシアの （ロシアの）宇宙飛行士s and a Japanese 宇宙飛行士.
Maezawa, who is a space 熱中している人, also 計画（する）s to take eight people with him on a 2023 使節団 around the moon operated by Musk's SpaceX.
He and his assistant will be the first 私的な Japanese 国民s to visit space since 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Toyohiro Akiyama travelled to the Mir space 駅／配置する in 1990.
Before its lay-off, Russia had a history of shepherding self-基金d tourists to space.
In 共同 with US-based company Space Adventures, the Roscosmos space 機関 has taken eight tourists to the space 駅／配置する since 2001 -- one of them twice.
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The last was Canada's Cirque du Soleil co-創立者 Guy Laliberte in 2009, who became the first clown in space.
Yusaku Maezawa has his spacesuit 実験（する）d during pre-開始する，打ち上げる 準備s at the Baikonur cosmodrome
In October, Russia 開始する，打ち上げるd its first untrained （ロシアの）宇宙飛行士s into space since that trip, 配達するing a ロシアの actress and director to the ISS where they filmed scenes for the first movie in 軌道.
Moscow had stopped sending tourists to space after 航空宇宙局 retired the Space 往復（する） in 2011, which left Russia with a monopoly on 供給（する）ing the ISS.
航空宇宙局 bought up all Soyuz 開始する，打ち上げる seats for a 報告（する）／憶測d $90 million per 位置／汚点／見つけ出す -- 効果的に ending tourist flights.
But that all changed last year when a SpaceX 宇宙船 首尾よく 配達するd its first 宇宙飛行士s to the ISS.
航空宇宙局 began 購入（する）ing flights from SpaceX, stripping Russia of its monopoly and costing its cash-strapped space 機関 millions of dollars in 歳入.
Russia is 直面するing stiff 競争 from US companies in the space 観光旅行，事業 商売／仕事
While the cost of tickets to space for tourists has not been 公表する／暴露するd, Space Adventures has 示すd that they are in the 範囲 of $50-60 million.
Roscosmos has said it 計画（する）s to continue growing its space 観光旅行，事業 商売／仕事, already （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限ing two Soyuz ロケット／急騰するs for such trips.
The 機関 is also advertising a spacewalk to be carried out by a tourist during an ISS trip in 2023.
But Roscosmos is 直面するing 競争 from SpaceX in space 観光旅行，事業 too.
Earlier this year, a 乗組員 Dragon 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル took an all-非軍事の 使節団 on a three-day trip around the Earth's 軌道 in a historic first.
Also hot on Russia's heels are アマゾン 創立者 Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and 億万長者 Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, which 完全にするd their maiden tourist voyages this year.
Although those companies' flights do not go into 軌道, they 申し込む／申し出 several minutes in 無 gravity without 要求するing months of training and at a 意味ありげに lower cost.
