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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa (left) with cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin

Apart from the 32 countries that UberEats operates in, the food delivery chain has now expanded to space, having recently served meals to hungry astronauts at the International Space Station! Yes, you heard it right.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who ticked off space as one of the holiday destinations from his bucket list, carried an Uber Eats parcel loaded with Japanese dishes in the Soyuz spacecraft for his Expedition 66 crewmates.

The ready-to-eat canned food, which included a beef bowl cooked in a sweet sauce, boiled mackerel in miso, chicken with bamboo shoots, and braised pork, became a welcome break from traditional space food for the astronauts.

"One small handoff for Yusaku Maezawa, one giant delivery for UberEats!" said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in a statement. "We're over the Moon to have helped make our first successful delivery to space. Maezawa gets a thumbs up on this delivery, even though it took a bit longer than the usual 30 minutes to arrive."

Maezawa made this delivery on December 11, after a nearly 400-kilometre-long journey that took almost nine hours to complete. He plans to stay aboard the ISS for 12 days.

Meanwhile, the company is celebrating the space delivery success back home by handing special discounts to the Earthlings, using the promo code SPACEFOOD.

Watch the Japanese billionaire make this out-of-the-world delivery:

The entrepreneur has also been in the news for purchasing all the SpaceX tickets for the next scheduled tourist spaceflight around the Moon in 2023. While space travel is currently accessible only for physically fit people, the scenario may change in the years to come, he believes.

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