Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa arrived for a 12-day stay at the International Space Station, or ISS, on Wednesday.

周三，日本亿万富翁前泽友作抵达国际空间站（ISS），开始为期12天的太空之旅。

The trip is the latest and the longest in a year of increasing space tourism.

这次太空旅行是太空旅游人数不断增加的一年中最近的一次，也是时间最长的一次。

The businessman and his assistant Yozo Hirano left for the station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with Russian astronaut Alexander Misurkin.

这位商人和他的助手平野洋三与俄罗斯宇航员亚历山大·米苏尔金乘坐俄罗斯联盟号宇宙飞船前往国际空间站。

Hirano went along to film the trip.

平野洋三一起去拍摄了这次旅行。

The price of the trip has not been made public, but some reports say it costs some $50 million.

这次旅行的价格尚未公开，但一些报道称，这次旅行的费用约为5000万美元。

The 46-year-old Maezawa had been training at a space center outside Moscow in recent months.

现年46岁的前泽友作近几个月来一直在莫斯科郊外的一个航天中心接受训练。

"I would like to look at the Earth from space.

前泽友作周二在飞行前说：“我想从太空看地球。

I would like to experience the opportunity to feel weightlessness," Maezawa said Tuesday before the flight.

我想体验一下失重的感觉。”

"And I also have a personal expectation: I'm curious how the space will change me, how I will change after this space flight."

“我还有一个个人的期望：我很好奇太空会如何改变我，这次太空飞行后我会如何改变。”

A company that organized the flight said Maezawa listed 100 things to do in space after asking the public for ideas.

组织这次飞行的一家公司表示，前泽友作在征求公众的意见后，列出了100件在太空中要做的事情。

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.

太空探险公司总裁汤姆·谢利说，这份清单包括“日常生活中的一些简单的事情，也许还有其他一些有趣的活动，还有一些更严肃的问题”。

Maezawa made his money in clothes, creating Japan's largest online fashion site, Zozotown.

前泽友作靠服装赚钱，创建了日本最大的在线时尚网站Zozotown。

Forbes magazine estimated his worth at $2 billion.

《福布斯》杂志估计他的身价为20亿美元。

He has become famous in Japan through his liking of private planes and sports cars, cash giveaways to Twitter followers and famous girlfriends.

他因喜欢私人飞机和跑车，喜欢向推特关注者和著名女友赠送现金而在日本成名。

Maezawa joins the list of billionaires who have recently paid for trips to space.

前泽友作加入了最近为太空旅行买单的亿万富翁的行列。

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson both went to space earlier this year.

今年早些时候，亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝佐斯和维珍集团创始人理查德·布兰森都去了太空。

Maezawa is also planning a trip around the moon on Elon Musk's Starship.

前泽友作还计划乘坐埃隆·马斯克的星际飞船绕月飞行。

That trip is scheduled for a time in the next few years.

绕月飞行计划在未来几年的某个时候进行。

He will be joined on that trip by eight contest winners.

与他一起绕月飞行的还有8名比赛获胜者。

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