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30 September 2009. 11 October 2009. First Canadian space tourist; Last space tourist before the U.S. STS Space Shuttle programme shut down, and increase in long-term ISS crew to 6, leading to a decade without space tourist flights to the ISS. [ 3][ 1][ 12][ 13] Richard Branson. Virgin Galactic Unity 22.
Jared Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and space tourist. [ 4][ 5] He is the founder of Draken International, a private air force provider and the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, a payment processor. [ 6] As of February 2023, his estimated net worth is US$2 billion.
Steve Fossett. James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for ...
As the billionaire space race heats up, a new Discovery+ special is going inside Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson’s ambitious attempt to revolutionize space exploration. Ahead of its ...
On 11 July 2021, Richard Branson took a flight with Beth Moses, Sirisha Bandla and Colin Bennett and reached edge of space (86 kilometers or 53 miles) on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft called VSS Unity. This made him the first billionaire founder of a space company to travel to the edge of space. [111]
There's a new space race in the world, but this one isn't being driven by competing governments, but rather by billionaires. Some of the biggest names in business, from Richard Branson to Jeff ...
Richard Branson will attempt to fly to space aboard Virgin Galactic's rocket-powered vehicle, while also trying to beat Jeff Bezos to the milestone. Billionaires, livestreams and Stephen Colbert ...
The groundwork for the billionaire space race and private spaceflight was arguably laid by Peter Diamandis, an American entrepreneur. In the 1980s, he founded an American national student space society, the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). Later, Jeff Bezos became a chapter president of SEDS.