The Russian Space Agency will bring Japanese billionaires Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano to the International Space Station in December.

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos today announced Maezawa and Hirano will go on the spacecraft "Soyuz MS-20, expected to launch on December 8 from Baikonur Space Airport" in Kazakhstan to go to the International Space Station (

Maezawa, 45, became a billionaire from online retail, also plans to participate in the flight around the Moon on the Starship spacecraft of SPACEX, rivals of Roscosmos and owned by US Elon billionaire

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa stood near Falcon 9 missiles in the announcement of the first passenger in Space X to fly around the moon, in Caforornia, USA in 2018. Photo: AFP.

Maezawa and Hirano Film Manufacturer, who will record the trip, will start training in June at the Yuri Gagarin Astronaut Training Center in Star City, a town in the suburbs Moskva, Roscosmos added

"I am very curious about life in space. So I'm planning to learn and share with everyone on your YouTube channel," Maezawa said.

The closest time Roscosmos takes guests to ISS in 2009, with the flight of the Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte.

The reconnection of space travels took place when Roscosmos lost exclusively to the ISS, after a SPACEX rocket could reuse to bring NASA astronauts to the universe successfully last year.

Maezawa billionaire in January 2020 announced the recruitment of a girl to the moon, but later suddenly canceled the plan because "personal reasons", though receiving nearly 30,000 applications.

In March, he announced he would cover 8 people with his traveling around the moon.