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WHAT IS SPACE TOURISM? Space tourism is space travel for leisure or recreation rather than for scientific purposes Dennis Tito, aged 60 at the time, paid $20m (£14m) in 2001 to become the first paying passenger to go to outer space Current commercial...
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Space Adventures is “the only company currently providing opportunities for actual private spaceflight and space tourism today.” Among their clients are the first male and female private space explorers, Dennis Tito and Anousheh Ansari. They also put...
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Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev of Russia (L) and Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist speaks on April 11, 2011 during a reception devoted to the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's historic first space flight and the upcoming Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics... View Photo »
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Now, the company is readying trips to the moon. The cost? $150 million. (Credit: Space Adventures) The one percent may feel under siege these days, but at least there's one consolation to having hundreds of millions of dollars to burn: The opportunity...
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Space Station. But these flights, which cost around £13 million, involve weeks of training and allowed the space holidaymakers to spend several days on the ISS. The first person to take part in one of these flights and become the world’s first space...
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Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev, left, and Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, pose for a picture at an exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 11, 2011. View Photo »
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About Dennis Tito
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Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940 in Queens, New York) is a United States multimillionaire who gained celebrity status by becoming the first space tourist to pay for his own ticket, although he himself opposes being called "tourist" and asks to be called an "independent researcher" since he performed several scientific experiments in orbit. Full Article
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Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev, left, and Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, pose for a picture at an exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 11, 2011.
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Cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev, left, and Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist, pose for a picture at an exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 11, 2011.
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