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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 .
Dennis Tito: Space Adventures / MirCorp ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32/TM-31) 28 April 2001: 6 May 2001: First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station [3] [1] [4] Mark Shuttleworth: Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33) 25 April 2002: 2 May 2002
The retired 82-year-old financial analyst, who paid $20 million for a trip to the space station in 2001, is gearing up for a flight around the moon and back.
Shuttleworth gained worldwide fame on 25 April 2002, as the second self-funded space tourist (after Dennis Tito in 2001) and the first South African in space. [ a ] Flying through Space Adventures , he launched aboard the Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission as a spaceflight participant , [ 27 ] paying approximately US$20 million [ 28 ] for the voyage ...
Twenty-one years ago, American businessman Dennis Tito made headlines when he became the first person to pay to go to space. Now at age 82, Tito announced his plans to return to space.
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Dennis Tito said he would fund the foundation with $100 million for the first years of operation. [10] At the 2013 conference, however, Dennis Tito admitted that his plan was impossible without investment from NASA and the use of NASA spacecraft. [11] NASA, however, was not willing to become a partner. [12]
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