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Arab News
April 17, 2018
As yet, Axiom hasn't priced its off-world excursions, but says it'll be considerably lower than the tag paid by previous space tourists like Dennis Tito, who stumped up a reported $20 million for a seven-day trip in 2001. Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson with the aim of taking passengers briefly intoÃâà...
Superyachts.com
April 8, 2018
Orion Span would not be the first operation to offer rides into space. A number of wealthy travellers have flown to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Russian space programme – which said recently it too plans to open a “space hotel” in 2022. Dennis Tito, an American businessman, took the firstÃâà...
The Guardian
April 7, 2018
Orion Span would not be the first operation to offer rides into space. A number of wealthy travelers have flown to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Russian space programme – which said recently it too plans to open a “space hotel” in 2022. Dennis Tito, an American businessman, took the firstÃâà...
Gulf Times
April 7, 2018
What is the claim to fame of Dennis Anthony Tito, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Wilshire Associates Incorporated? He is the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. Identify the artist in the work below. He died this day in 1973 at the age of 91. (Answer next week. Last week's answer toÃâà...
CNN
April 6, 2018
It says it will begin to take tourists to the ISS in 2019 and later to its own station. As yet, Axiom hasn't priced its off-world excursions, but says it'll be considerably lower than the tag paid by previous space tourists like Dennis Tito, who stumped up a reported $20 million for a seven-day trip in 2001. Playing on.
Arab News
April 1, 2018
As yet, Axiom hasn't priced its off-world excursions, but says it'll be considerably lower than the tag paid by previous space tourists like Dennis Tito, who stumped up a reported $20 million for a seven-day trip in 2001. Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson with the aim of taking passengers briefly intoÃâà...
Now. Powered by Northrop Grumman. (blog)
March 30, 2018
Space tourism began in 2001, when American Dennis Tito paid $20 million to become the first space tourist, traveling on a Russian rocket to visit the International Space Station (ISS). Billionaire tech entrepreneurs are responding to the siren song of space travel, as some companies have laid out big plansÃâà...
Wired.co.uk
February 16, 2018
You have a few billion pounds to spare and want to set up a new company selling journeys into space. What will you invest your money in? A piece of equipment designed in the 1980s that needs constant maintenance, or start again with a brand new, tailored design using today's technology? For a fewÃâà...
BEAM Media
February 14, 2018
Dennis Tito pioneered the game in 2001, flying to ISS for $20 million he paid to Roscosmos and Space Adventures company. His flight has encouraged entrepreneurs, enough to make them thinking about the Space tourism as a profitable business. Seven more people could make it to the ISS as a SpaceÃâà...
Sky News
February 2, 2018
Dennis Tito, a former NASA scientist who made his wealth after founding investment management firm Wilshire Associates, became the first space tourist when he travelled to the ISS for eight days in 2001. IN SPACE - AUGUST 3: In this NASA handout, mission specialist, Astronaut Stephen. Image: SpaceÃâà...
Pensions & Investments
February 21, 2016
Five years ago, Dennis Tito considered selling Wilshire Associates, the consulting and investment firm he co-founded in 1972. But the 75-year-old now says the firm is no longer on the block and that he has no plans to retire as Wilshire's CEO and chairman. “If somebody came along and wanted to buy theÃâà...
Huffington Post
September 16, 2013
NEW YORK – As microgravity makes even the most mundane tasks tricky, going to the bathroom in space can be a chore. How astronauts take care of that basic human necessity while in orbit has been a point of perennial fascination for the Earth-bound public. For a moment during a Sept. 4 talk here at theÃâà...
The Independent
February 27, 2013
Tomorrow at the National Press Club in Washington, multi-millionaire Dennis Tito – the world's first space tourist – is expected to reveal how he hopes to launch a privately-funded mission to Mars in 2018, when the Red Planet makes its nearest approach to Earth. Little is known about the “Inspiration Mars”Ãâà...
The Independent
February 27, 2013
It has been a long-cherished dream of space enthusiasts, as well as lovers of science fiction, but now it seems that someone has finally come up with an ambitious – and some say realistic – plan to send two astronauts to Mars in just five years' time. Tomorrow at the National Press Club in Washington,Ãâà...
Space.com
February 27, 2013
The world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito, isn't done with space. The American entrepreneur has founded a new nonprofit organization to work toward launching the first manned mission to Mars in 2018. The flyby mission, which wouldn't land on the Red Planet, would take advantage of a rare planetaryÃâà...
National Geographic
February 22, 2013
The first space tourist plans to send two people on a round-trip mission to Mars. Dennis Tito gestures after landing in a space capsule near Arkalyk, Kazakstan. View Images. Dennis Tito is all smiles after returning from six days on the International Space Station in 2001. Photograph by Mikhail Metzel, AP.
BBC News
April 29, 2011
Ten years ago, US multi-millionaire Dennis Tito became the world's first-ever space tourist. He is said to have paid $20m for his eight days in space. Mr Tito blasted off on 28 April 2001, but only after a struggle to get anyone to take him - the US space agency Nasa refused on the grounds that he was not aÃâà...
Space.com
April 27, 2011
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 Russian Soyuz spacecraft thanks to a $20 million deal brokered by the Virginia-based firm Space Adventures.
WEEI.com
December 31, 1999
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Cosmos
December 31, 1999
The first ever space tourist was US entrepreneur Dennis Tito, who reportedly paid a whopping US$20 million to visit the International Space Station in 2001. He was taken aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which – in collaboration with the company Space Adventures — took seven space tourists betweenÃâà...
Capitol Weekly
December 31, 1999
Over NASA's initial misgivings, American businessman Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in April of 2001, when he took a $20-million ride aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He spent six days in orbit. Since then, at least six additional passengers have taken flight at prices ranging from $20 to $40Ãâà...