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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.
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.
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.
Commercial Astronaut. Time in space. 2d 23h 3m. Missions. Inspiration4. Hayley Arceneaux (born December 4, 1991) is an American physician assistant and commercial astronaut. She joined billionaire Jared Isaacman on SpaceX's first private spaceflight Inspiration4, which launched on September 16, 2021, 00:02:56 UTC, and successfully water-landed ...
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 ...
Budget. $90 million [ 2] Box office. $171.1 million [ 3] Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Carl Sagan. Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film.
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 ...
Shatner drew scrutiny this summer after the Kremlin-backed television channel RT America announced he would host a new talk show for the network called "I Don't Understand."