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January 6th 2009 22:17
An oral history of the launch of space tourism.
Happy return: After 14 days in space, Charles Simonyi landed in Kazakhstan on April 21, 2007, rubber-legged. Credit: REUTERS/Sergei Remezov
Happy return: After 14 days in space, Charles Simonyi landed in Kazakhstan on April 21, 2007, rubber-legged. Credit: REUTERS/Sergei Remezov


In 1995, Peter Diamandis founded the X Prize Foundation, which started a private space race by offering big money to the first group that could perform two manned suborbital flights within two weeks. In 1998, he cofounded Space Adventures Ltd. with $250,000 in seed capital and an even more audacious idea for bringing the private sector to bear on space exploration: tourism. It took three years of negotiations with the Russian authorities, but in 2001, former NASA engineer turned financier Dennis Tito flew to the International Space Station and back in a Soyuz capsule's third seat, next to the commander and engineer. Tito and Space Adventures opened the stars to anyone who could pay the freight.

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