On the night of October 1, 2021, from the Roscosmos Roskosmos North Cosmic Center) on the Baikonur cosmodrome, the railway composition was sent to the Bay of the Soyuz-2 Stage 1A Rocket Blocks, as well as a head fairing. The carrier rocket is designed to withdraw into the orbit of the transport piloted ship “Union MS-20” with Japanese cosmic tourists.
Launch of the Soyuz MS-20 ship on the delivery program of the 20th Expedition of the visit to the International Space Station is scheduled for early December 2021. The duration of the flight will be 12 days. The commander of the main crew is the cosmonaut of Roscosmos, Alexander Misurnkin, also on board will be a Japanese billionaire-entrepreneur Yusaka Maedzawa and his business assistant Jozo Hirano. Currently, at the Center for the Training of Cosmonauts named after Yu.A. Gagarin is active preparation for the upcoming flight.
Space Adventures cooperates with Roskosmos State Corporation from the moment of the flight of the first space tourist in 2001. In total, today at the station visited seven cosmic tourists who paid their flight independently. Yusaka Maesava will be an eighth tourist and the first space tourist from Japan.