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ROOKIERetired—Other·🇺🇸 United States·Born 1940
Dennis Tito
First space tourist.
190h
Hours in Space
1
Missions
0
EVAs
—
EVA Time
My dream was to fly in space before I die.
It just was — whatever I had expected, the best I had expected times 10. It was the best experience of my whole life, those eight days.
Inspirations
What they aspire to
He hoped his self-funded flight would open the door for ordinary people to one day visit space.
Biography
First space tourist. Paid $20 million for an 8-day trip to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Before NASAAerospace engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who designed Mariner trajectories to Mars and Venus before founding investment firm Wilshire Associates in 1972.
Notable Missions
Soyuz TM-32 / ISS EP-1
Beyond the Mission
Causes They Champion
Commercial spaceflightInspiration Mars Foundation (privately funded Mars flyby concept)
Languages
English
Fun fact
He paid a reported US$20 million for his 2001 Soyuz seat, and decades later signed up to fly around the Moon aboard SpaceX's Starship.
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