Space tourism
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Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Tourists are motivated by the
Soyuz MS-20 crew on the International Space Station, from left to right: Yusaku Maezawa (Spaceflight Participant), Alexander Misurkin (cosmonaut), and Yozo Hirano (Spaceflight Participant).
The first space tourist, Dennis Tito (left) aboard the ISS
Space tourist Mark Shuttleworth
Artist conception of a Mars tourism poster, made by SpaceX
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
Space tourism
…weightlessness, experiencing extremely high speed, and contributing to science. Space tourism started in April 2001, when American businessman and engineer Dennis Tito became the first ever space tourist to travel to space aboard a Soyuz-TM32 spacecraft. During the period from 2001 to 2009, seven space tourists made…
Dennis Tito
Crew of Soyuz TM-32. (L-R: Tito, Talgat Musabayev, and Yuri Baturin).