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.
Maezawa, a 46-year-old fashion tycoon, spent 12 days on the International Space Station with his assistant Yozo Hirano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
trio reportedly landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 9.13 a.m. local time, some 148 kilometers (92 miles) southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan, and conducted a medical check-up upon landing.
Both Maezawa and Hirano became the first self-paying tourists to visit the space station since 2009, whilst Misurkin was on his third space mission.
More updates on this are to be followed.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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