Photos: Japanese billionaire, producer take off for International Space Station

Photos: Japanese billionaire, producer take off for International Space Station The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft carrying the crew of Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his production assistant Yozo Hirano blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Moscow-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 8, 2021. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)