The Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with Soyuz MS-20 space ship carrying Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, and spaceflight participants Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa, and Japanese producer Yozo Hirano blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, December 8, 2021. A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space Wednesday as the first self-paying space tourists in more than a decade. (Photo by Ivan Timoshenko/Roscosmos Space Agency via AP Photo)
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