前沢氏、１２月にＩＳＳへ　ＺＯＺＯ創業、初の宇宙旅行―日本人２人、ソユーズ搭乗

　衣料通販サイト「ゾゾタウン」を運営するＺＯＺＯ（ゾゾ）創業者の前沢友作氏（４５）は１３日、今年１２月にロシア宇宙船ソユーズに搭乗し、国際宇宙ステーション（ＩＳＳ）を訪れると発表した。実現すれば、宇宙飛行士以外の日本人による初の宇宙旅行となる。
　旅行者としてＩＳＳに向かうのは、前沢氏と前沢氏の関連会社役員平野陽三氏（３５）の２人。ソユーズは３人乗りのカプセル型宇宙船で、前沢氏らのほか、ロシア人宇宙飛行士が搭乗し、船長を務める。（2021/05/13-19:47）

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Thursday that he will visit the International Space Station in December, becoming the first non-astronaut Japanese space traveler.
   Maezawa, 45, the founder of online fashion mall operator Zozo Inc. , will travel to the ISS on a three-seater Russian Soyuz spacecraft, together with Yozo Hirano, 35, an executive of a Maezawa-related firm, and a Russian astronaut.
   The ISS trip will precede his journey to the moon expected for 2023. In 2018, he was chosen as one of the first passengers of a moon flight by U.S. aerospace firm SpaceX.
   Maezawa has a contract with U.S. space travel firm Space Adventures, which offers space trips using Soyuz. He will receive training for the ISS flight, including in Russia, from mid-June. He has already passed pre-training tests.
   The Soyuz spaceship carrying Maezawa and the two others is scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 8. After staying in the ISS for about 12 days, they will return to Earth, landing on the steppe in the same country.