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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.
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 ...
www .markshuttleworth .com. Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. [ 1] In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first South African to travel to space, doing so as a space ...
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate which retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin Investments Limited. [ 2] It is headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico. The company develops commercial spacecraft and provides suborbital ...
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.
Robert Thomas Bigelow [1] [2] (born May 12, 1944) is an American businessman. He owns Budget Suites of America and is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace. [3] [4] Bigelow has provided financial support for investigations of UFOs and parapsychological topics, including the continuation of consciousness after death. [5]