Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrived for a 12-day stay at the International Space Station, or ISS, on Wednesday.
日本億萬富翁前澤友作本週三到達了國際空間站(ISS),開啟了為期12天的太空之旅。
The trip is the latest and the longest in a year of increasing space tourism.
這次旅行是太空旅行頻繁增長一年來最新的一次也是最長的一次旅程。
The businessman and his assistant Yozo Hirano left for the station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with Russian astronaut Alexander Misurkin.
這位商人和他的助理平野洋三與俄羅斯宇航員亞歷山大·米蘇爾金乘坐俄羅斯聯盟號宇宙飛船前往空間站。
Hirano went along to film the trip.
平野洋三同行參與拍攝這趟旅程。
The price of the trip has not been made public, but some reports say it costs some $50 million.
此次旅程的價格並未對外公佈,但是有報道稱大約花費了5000萬美元。
The 46-year-old Maezawa had been training at a space center outside Moscow in recent months.
46歲的前澤友作近幾個月一直在莫斯科郊外的一個航天中心接受訓練。
"I would like to look at the Earth from space.
“我想從太空觀看地球。
I would like to experience the opportunity to feel weightlessness," Maezawa said Tuesday before the flight.
我想要去體驗失重的感覺,”飛行前前澤友作於週二說道。
"And I also have a personal expectation: I'm curious how the space will change me, how I will change after this space flight."
“同時我也有自己的個人期待:我很好奇太空會怎樣改變我,我在此次太空旅行後會發生怎樣的改變。”
A company that organized the flight said Maezawa listed 100 things to do in space after asking the public for ideas.
組織此次旅程的一家公司表示,前澤友作向公眾徵求意見後列出了100件要在太空做的事情。
The list includes "simple things about daily life to maybe some other fun activities, to more serious questions as well," Space Adventures President Tom Shelley said.
這個列表包括“日常生活中很簡單的事情,也許有一些有意思的活動,還包括一些很嚴肅的問題,” 太空探險公司總裁湯姆·謝利說道。
Maezawa made his money in clothes, creating Japan's largest online fashion site, Zozotown.
前澤友作透過製作服裝掙錢,他創辦了日本最大的線上時尚網站Zozotown。
Forbes magazine estimated his worth at $2 billion.
福布斯雜誌估計他的身價是20億美元。
He has become famous in Japan through his liking of private planes and sports cars, cash giveaways to Twitter followers and famous girlfriends.
他在日本很有名是因為他喜歡私人飛機和跑車,以及給推特的粉絲和名人女朋友們贈送現金。
Maezawa joins the list of billionaires who have recently paid for trips to space.
前澤友作加入了近期為太空旅行買單的億萬富翁行列。
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson both went to space earlier this year.
亞馬遜創始人傑夫·貝索斯和維珍集團創始人理查德·布蘭森今年早些時候都登上過太空了。
Maezawa is also planning a trip around the moon on Elon Musk's Starship.
前澤友作還在計劃乘坐埃隆·馬斯克的星艦去月球旅行。
That trip is scheduled for a time in the next few years.
此次行程計劃在幾年後的某一時間完成。
He will be joined on that trip by eight contest winners.
他將會和八位比賽獲勝者一起參加這次旅程。