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- Japanese billionaire Yasuki Maezawa landed safely in Kazakhstan on Monday after a 12-day space flight.
- Maezawa documented the flight on social media, entertaining his followers by brushing his teeth and making tea in zero gravity.
- Maezawa and his assistant, Yozo Hirano, are the first tourists to visit the ISS in 10 years.
Japanese billionaire Yasuki Maezawa returned to Earth on Monday after a 12-day space trip on the International Space Station.
Maezawa, an entrepreneur that founded the online fashion site Zozotown, traveled with his personal assistant Yozo Hirano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. The trio parachuted into open grassland in the north of Kazakhstan on Monday, according to The Guardian.
Once the trio reached the ISS on Dec. 8, Maezawa and Hirano became the first tourists to visit the station in more than 10 years. Shortly after arriving, Maezawa began documenting his time on the ISS for his popular YouTube channel.
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Maezawa made videos of himself preparing tea and brushing his teeth in zero gravity for his more than 1 million followers, according to Al Jazeera.
The trip was meant to be a practice run for Maezawa’s planned trip around the moon in 2023, along with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, the outlet reported.
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