Good news. Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be heading to the ISS as a private astronaut in December of this year. Maezawa will be the first private astronaut to set foot on the ISS in 10 years.

If you have no idea who Maezawa (or @yousuck2020) is, he is the Japanese fashion billionaire who is famous for having the most retweeted tweet. I'm loathed to add another one, so instead I've just copied and pasted the English translation here.

ZOZOTOWN's New Year's sale is the fastest ever and has just surpassed 10 billion yen!! As a token of my gratitude, I will give 1 million yen (a total 100 million yen in New Year's money) to 100 people in cash. To apply, just follow me and RT this tweet. Reception open until 1/7. I'll DM the winners directly! #NewYeargiftifyouwanttogotothemoon

Maezawa will be taking his production assistant with him. Together they'll fly a Soyuz rocket to the ISS, which means that only one of the crew on that Soyuz will be an actual astronaut. This is a trip that usually costs tourists about $20-30 million per person, which I doubt would make much of a dent in Maezawa's bank balance.

There are also plans in place for him to return to space in 2023, when he'll travel to the moon with eight other civilians on SpaceX's Starship. The application process was through – you guessed it – social media, and the mission will have the crew in space for about 6 days. During that time, they'll fly around the moon on a similar trajectory to Apollo 8.

Meanwhile, Artemis 2 will fly that same profile in 2023, assuming the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission gets away successfully and on schedule in November of this year.