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Space tourism turns 9 years old today. On April 28, 2001, NASA-engineer-turned-investment-guru Dennis Tito thundered off the pad at Baikonur in a Soyuz spacecraft to become the world’s first billionaut. He spent 7 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes in space, most of it aboard the International Space Station, and completed 128 orbits of the Earth. Since then, six other private space travelers have journeyed into orbit (one of them twice), […]https://parabolicarc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Dennis_Tito-202x300.jpg