Japanese billionaire to make ‘big announcement’ on space after Musk meeting


Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa who returned to Earth last month after a 12-day journey into space attends a news conference after returning to Japan at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo Japan January 7 2022.  REUTERSIssei KatoFiles

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who returned to Earth last month after a 12-day journey into space, attends a news conference after returning to Japan at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, in Tokyo, Japan January 7, 2022. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Files

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa tweeted on Monday that he plans to make a "big announcement" related to space after a meeting with SpaceX owner Elon Musk.

Yusaku Maezawa, founder of online fashion site Zozo Inc, completed a tourist trip to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Soyuz spacecraft in December last year and plans to journey around the moon with Musk's rocket and satellite company SpaceX in 2023.

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