Dennis Tito, a multimillionaire American, became the first man to go on space tourism as a space tourist in April 2001 and spent roughly eight days on the International Space Station. Tito became the first private citizen to buy a space ticket with this $20 million journey. Six other private individuals travelled to the International Space Station to experience space travel during the course of the following eight years after Tito.
Many businesses, including as Blue Origin in 2000 and Virgin Galactic in 2004, entered this market as space tourism became a reality in an effort to take advantage of the resurgence in public interest in space. Space tourists could only travel to the ISS and were restricted to launches on Russian Soyuz planes in the 2000s.
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