In 2001, Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in human history, the first human to visit space purely because they ...

Dennis Tito, a California tycoon and former NASA ... Tito out of view since he arrived Monday morning. The 60-year-old space tourist, however, has spent much of his time snapping pictures and ...

It has recently been valued at $100bn. Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX were all founded in the years following the first space tourist flight in 2001, when entrepreneur Dennis Tito became the ...

More than five decades later we're still waiting. In April 2001, American businessman Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist. He paid $20million for a flight aboard Russian spacecraft ...