Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and two fellow space travelers have safely returned to Earth on Monday as their Russian Soyuz spacecraft landed on the Kazakh steppe. Meazawa, a 46-year-old fashion tycoon, spent 12 days on the International Space Station with his assistant Yozo Hirano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. The trio reportedly landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 9:13 a.m. local time, some 92 miles (148 kilometers) southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan, in snowy weather. “This morning, December 20, 2021, the descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft, which undocked three hours earlier from the International Space Station, landed at a design point in Kazakhstan,” Russian space agency Rosmoscos said in a statement. Rosmoscos also shared a video on its website showing the Russian recovery team reaching the landing site in all-terrain vehicles, helping Maezawa and Hirano out of the spacecraft. All three of them underwent a …
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