Dennis Tito
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Dennis Anthony Tito 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 memb
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Crew of Soyuz TM-32. (L-R: Tito, Talgat Musabayev, and Yuri Baturin).
Expedition 2
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Expedition 2 was the second long-duration spaceflight aboard the International Space Station, immediately following Expedition 1. Its three-person crew stayed aboard the station from March to August 2
Dennis Tito
…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. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31. Tito…
Aft view of the International Space Station in April 2001, a month into Expedition 2.
L-R: James Voss, Yury Usachev, and Susan HelmsISS expeditions← Expedition 1Expedition 3 →
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James S. Voss, Expedition Two flight engineer, looks over an atlas in the Zvezda Service Module. (NASA)