Paying passengers and private-mission crew who flew to space as commercial or citizen astronauts rather than as members of a national corps, including the early visitors to the International Space Station and recent crews of private flights. A person belongs here when the cited article calls them a space tourist, a private, commercial or citizen astronaut, or a billionaire passenger. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Jared Isaacman - Wikipedia
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Jared Taylor Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut who has served as the 15th administrator of NASA since December 2025.
Charles Simonyi - Wikipedia
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Charles Simonyi (; Hungarian: Simonyi Károly, pronounced [ˈʃimoɲi ˈkaːroj]; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect, businessman, and space tourist.
Yusaku Maezawa - Wikipedia
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Yusaku Maezawa (前澤 友作, Maezawa Yūsaku; born 22 November 1975) is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur, space tourist, and art collector.
Wikipedia: Anousheh Ansari
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Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian-American engineer, space tourist, and entrepreneur.
Wikipedia: Dennis Tito
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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.
Guy Laliberté
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Guy Laliberté (French pronunciation: [ɡi lalibɛʁte]; born 2 September 1959) is a Québécois billionaire businessman and poker player.
Hayley Arceneaux - Wikipedia
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Hayley Arceneaux (born December 4, 1991) is an American physician assistant and commercial astronaut.
Sian Proctor - Wikipedia
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Sian Hayley "Leo" Proctor (March 28, 1970) is an American commercial astronaut, geology professor, artist, author, and science communicator.
Wikipedia: Namira Salim
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Salim is the only Pakistani among the first 100 aspiring space tourists to purchase a ticket for Virgin Galactic's future commercial space liner.
Wikipedia: Sara Sabry
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Sara Sabry (born May 23, 1993) is an Egyptian engineer, citizen astronaut, and entrepreneur.
Wikipedia: Katya Echazarreta
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Katya Celeste Echazarreta González (born June 15, 1995) is a Mexican and American electrical engineer, science communicator, and Citizen Astronaut.
Wikipedia: Rabea Rogge
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Rabea Patricia Rogge is an electrical engineer, robotic researcher, polar scientist and private astronaut who flew on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience, as part of the Fram2 mission.
Wikipedia: Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers
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Keisha Schahaff (born 1976 or 1977) is an Antiguan and Barbudan, who, along with her daughter, Anastatia Mayers (born 2004) are space tourists who are the first citizens from Antigua and Barbuda (and English-speaking Caribbean) and the first mother and daughter duo to fly to space (Lane Bess and Cameron Bess were the first parent and child (father and son) on the same spaceflight, Blue Origin NS-19).
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Keisha Schahaff (born 1976 or 1977) is an Antiguan and Barbudan, who, along with her daughter, Anastatia Mayers (born 2004) are space tourists who are the first citizens from Antigua and Barbuda (and English-speaking Caribbean) and the first mother and daughter duo to fly to space (Lane Bess and Cameron Bess were the first parent and child (father and son) on the same spaceflight, Blue Origin NS-19).
View the SourceWikipedia: Toyohiro Akiyama
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He became the first person of Japanese nationality to fly in space, and his space mission was the second spaceflight to be commercially sponsored and funded.
Jeff Bezos (Wikipedia)
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Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000, and he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021.
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