A Very Brief History of Billionaires Going to Space

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Jeff Bezos will be in space for about 11 minutes. But from 2001-2009, the extremely wealthy could pay to spend more than a week at the International Space Station.

In the same interview, he said he spent his time “looking at the window, videoing the earth, the portholes, the station.” That may sound a little dull, but “it was just wonderful.” And he would like to return to space one day. “I’d love to be one of the first people to go with Starship to land on Mars if I was physically capable.”

After Tito’s flight in 2001, six other wealthy people from around the world paid for journeys to the ISS, all of them through theIn 2002, Mark Shuttleworth became the second space tourist and the first-ever South African in space. In order to be able to fly, he had to do a, including seven months of preparation in Star City, Russia. He spent eight days at the ISS, where he participated in experiments related to AIDS and genome research.

In 2006, Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian American businesswoman and engineer, became the first female space tourist and the first Iranian woman in space. “I want to reach women and girls in remote parts of the world where women are not encouraged to go into science and technology jobs. They should believe in what they want and pursue it,” shethe New York Times. Like Olsen, she did not appreciate the term “space tourist”: “A tourist is someone who just buys a ticket and then goes somewhere.

his spaceflight to “raising awareness on water issues facing humankind.” He also called his trip the first “poetic social mission” in space, which involved a two-hour-long webcast with several artistic performances.

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