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Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and entrepreneur.During mid-2001, he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to space, when he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station.
Tourism is travel for pleasure, ... In April 2001, Dennis Tito, a customer of the Russian Soyuz became the first tourist to visit space. In May 2011, ...
In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first African to travel to space, doing so as a space tourist. [2] [3] [4] He lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual citizenship from South Africa and the United Kingdom. [5] [6] According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Shuttleworth is worth an estimated £500 million. [7]
“We have to keep healthy for as many years as it’s going to take for SpaceX to complete this vehicle,” Dennis Tito said.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 September 2024. This is a list of all of the visitors to the International Space Station (ISS), including long-term crew, short-term visitors, and space tourists, in alphabetical order. ISS crew names are in bold. The suffix (twice, three times,...) refers to the individual's number of spaceflights to ...
Carrying its first tourists is a massive milestone for Virgin Galactic, which was founded in 2004 and has long missed deadlines for delivering on promises to conduct frequent trips to the edge of ...
A US mountaineer has become the first foreign tourist to die this year during an expedition to scale Mount Everest, according to the US embassy in Nepal.. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, who was a Seattle ...
Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space and in orbit. Alan Shepard, the first American and the second person in space. Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman and 12th person in space. Alexei Leonov, joint 17th in space and first to perform an EVA. John Young, 19th person in space, first to fly solo around the Moon and first to command a Space ...