First Space Tourist

Dennis anthony tito is an american engineer and entrepreneur most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space.

First space tourist. In mid 2001 he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of iss ep 1 a visiting mission to the international space station. American businessman dennis tito the world s first orbital space tourist is seen training for his historic 2001 flight to the international space station. Tito launched in april 2001 aboard a.

This mission was launched by the spacecraft soyuz tm 32 and was landed by soyuz tm 31. There are several different types of space tourism including orbital suborbital and lunar space tourism. To date orbital space tourism has been performed only by the russian space agency.

First scientist slated to fly to space on virgin galactic s suborbital tourist rocket head of nasa s pluto mission alan stern is the passenger by loren grush lorengrush oct 14 2020 3 18pm edt. The first space tourist dennis tito left aboard the iss space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. American businessman dennis tito the world s first orbital space tourist is seen training for his historic 2001 flight to the international space station.

Planetary scientist alan stern will become one of the first researchers to fly to space on board a future flight of virgin galactic s tourist spaceplane. Tito launched in april 2001 aboard a. Upon his return to earth from the international space station on may 9 2001 california millionaire dennis tito speaks at a press conference about his experience as the world s first space.

Bezos secretive space company launches unmanned test flight. Stern will oversee two different experiments while on board the flight each meant to take advantage of the brief stay in the space environment. Jeff bezos blue origin gave the first ever look tour of its crew capsule that is set to take humans to space.

The capsule has reclining seats and large windows for passengers to take in the views.