Japanese tycoon planning space station visit, then moon trip

A Japanese fashion tycoon who's booked a SpaceX ride to the moon is going to try out the International Space Station first

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Japanese fashion tycoon who’s booked a SpaceX ride to the moon is going to try out the International Space Station first. "Going to the ISS before the Moon," Yusaku Maezawa announced Thursday via Twitter. Maezawa has bought two seats on a Russian Soyuz capsule. He'll blast off in December on the 12-day mission with his production assistant and a professional cosmonaut. “I’m so curious, ‘What’s life like in space?' So, I am planning to find out on my own and share with the world,” Maezawa said in a statement.