At once two tourists from Japan will depart to ISS on December 8

The rocket "Union-2.1a" will start the ship "MS-20 Union" with Japanese space tourists to the International space station at 10.38 Moscow time on December 8, ROSKOSMOS STATE CORPORATION is reported on a site, transfers Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti". Into crew entered the Russian astronaut Alexander Aleksandrovich Misurkin, and also - for the first time in the history - two, instead of one space tourist: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maedzava and his assistant Edzo Hirano. It is expected that they will carry out on ISS of 12 days and will return to Earth. "According to the Russian program of flight of the International space station, for December 8, 2021 at 10.38 Moscow time from the spaceport...