Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa traveled to the International Space Station at his own expense. How much will this trip cost?

?In September 2018, Beijing time, there was news that a wealthy man would follow the astronauts into the space station at his own expense. Everyone knows that the space station is one of the country's highest-level technologies, and an astronaut's spacesuit costs tens of millions. So you can imagine the amount of money this rich man will need to spend if he wants to go to the space station.

?A long time ago, no one thought that we could break through the earth's atmosphere and enter space. However, in today's society, rockets, satellites and space stations have become a term we are accustomed to. Although some people later proposed that humans move to live in space, you can know from what you heard on the news that the last time in space, just two astronauts cost a lot of money, and this kind of project It has always been done with the country as the background.

?Going into space requires a lot of financial, material, and manpower. The time just to develop a rocket may be several years or even more than ten years, not to mention the coordination of manufacturing and other equipment. But this rich man named "Yusaku Maezawa" has proposed such a bold idea of ??going to space. Let's take a look at who this Yusaku Maezawa is!

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Yusaku Maezawa (November 22, 1975-), Japanese entrepreneur.

Yusaku Maezawa has successively established the e-commerce company Start Today and Japan’s largest fashion brand website Zozotown. He is also the first private passenger of Space

?Billionaire! This is a truly wealthy man, and he does have enough financial resources to go to space. In the lives of ordinary people, our annual income may be only a few hundred thousand, and hundreds of millions is almost an astronomical figure in our eyes.

On May 13, 2021, the Russian Space Agency issued a statement stating that Yusaku Maezawa is scheduled to fly on the Russian Soyuz MS at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 8, 2021. -20 spaceship? Heading to the International Space Station.

According to investigations, the spacecraft that the rich man will board is from the company of "Space X", and the company pointed out:

Space Yusaku Maezawa, a billionaire from Japan, will fly around the moon. Some media estimate that a round trip to the International Space Station costs about US$74.7-81 million. According to a private space travel agency, in comparison, the price of flying to the moon is at least twice that of flying to the International Space Station, which may be $175 million.

?To sum up, we can know that the financial resources required for a space trip are calculated in units of hundreds of millions. This is too far away for us, but for the rich people’s feelings after space travel There are still photos that I’m looking forward to!