First Space Tourist

Bezos secretive space company launches unmanned test flight.
First space tourist. 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. 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. Blue origin the rocket venture founded by jeff bezos launched its space tourism rocket from its west texas test site to the edge of earth s atmosphere on tuesday marking the first test flight. 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.
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 launches spacecraft higher than ever. The capsule has reclining seats and large windows for passengers to take in the views. 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.
Tito launched in april 2001 aboard a. To date orbital space tourism has been performed only by the russian space agency. This mission was launched by the spacecraft soyuz tm 32 and was landed by soyuz tm 31. Jeff bezos blue origin gave the first ever look tour of its crew capsule that is set to take humans to space.
Dennis anthony tito is an american engineer and entrepreneur most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. There are several different types of space tourism including orbital suborbital and lunar space tourism. American businessman dennis tito the world s first orbital space tourist is seen training for his historic 2001 flight to the international space station. The first space tourist dennis tito left aboard the iss space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes.