October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... comrades. As the capsule door opened he gave a thumbs up and said he had “just been to paradise”. Dennis Tito. His name was Dennis Tito and he was a very wealthy businessman from California. He had made his money by applying formulas he had...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... benefit of large companies. A decade later, in April of 2001, the era of space tourism truly began when millionaire Dennis Tito flew on Soyuz TM-32 to the International Space Station. An idea was born. There could now be a system that would...
06 July 2020
Russia and Space Adventures sign contract to offer first tourist spacewalk
... for individuals wanting an out-of-this-world experience. Dennis Tito, an American engineer and entrepreneur, famously became the...of the two lucky passengers, will initiate another first like Tito did, and become the first private astronaut to walk in...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
..., MirCorp tried to organise the first tourist trip to the Mir station. Ultimately, the first private explorer - Dennis Tito - was taken by Space Adventures to the ISS. Space Adventures’ Russian branch was headed up by Sergei Kostenko. He later...
