Dennis Tito is an American engineer and investment manager who became the first paying space tourist, spending about eight days aboard the International Space Station in April 2001 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, an arrangement brokered by the company Space Adventures. His flight was initially opposed by NASA, which was concerned about a private citizen visiting the station, but the mission proceeded after negotiation with the Russian space agency, opening the door to a series of later paying spaceflight participants.
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1. Dennis Tito (Wikipedia)
he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to spaceView the Source 2. Wikipedia: Dennis Tito
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1940-08-08
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born August 8, 1940
Wikidata, P27 country of citizenship
United States
Infobox, missions
ISS EP-1
In Group: Space Tourists and Private Astronauts, Lead sentence
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.
Operated By: Space Adventures, Article text: agency link
Later, by an arrangement with space tourism company Space Adventures, Ltd., Tito joined the Soyuz TM-32 mission which launched on April 28, 2001.
Associated With: Roscosmos, Article text: associated organization
After paying a reported $20 million, Tito was accepted by the Russian Federal Space Agency as a candidate for a commercial spaceflight.
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