The self-made Japanese billionaire, who made his fortune from online fashion retail, traveled to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with compatriot Yuzu Hirano, the video producer that will document Maezawas 11 days aboard the outpost, and veteran astronaut Alexander Misurkin. It is also part of the space tourism mission.
Several days after his once-in-a-lifetime adventure, 46-year-old Maezawa shared an adorable time-lapse video of the station making a full orbit around the Earth.
The International Space Station travels at 17,000 miles per hour, orbiting the Earth about 16 times in a 24-hour period – or about once every 90 minutes, however, Maezawas interval compresses one orbit into 24 seconds, and the result is pretty impressive.
The video begins with a beautiful sunrise and ends with a perfect sunset as the station completes an entire orbit of our planet in between, and we can see Earth speeding 250 miles downward while the station’s solar arrays are constantly adapting to the best position to capture energy from the sun.
How did Maezawa reach the International Space Station?
Maezawas path to riches began in the 1990s with a mail-order company selling CDs and records, which led to the launch of the highly successful online fashion retail platform Zozotown in Japan in 2004, and Forbes estimates his current net worth at $2 billion.
The entrepreneur, who also hopes to fly on the moon in the coming years in a SpaceX spacecraft, did not reveal how much he paid for the trip to the space station, and like regular astronauts, Maezawa and his fellow travelers had to undergo extensive training in The six months prior to launch, the station’s latest guest tweeted regularly about what sometimes seemed like somewhat bizarre prep missions.
Maezawas stay on the station is part of a growing effort by NASA and its peers to commercialize the International Space Station, using missions to help fund further space exploration and research. of three citizens and a former NASA astronaut to the station for 10 days.
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