Although there were scientists rather than tourists on the above trips to space, they have still encouraged people to dream about the potential for space tourism. In 2011, American multimillionaire
Denis Tito paid Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, $20 million for a trip to outer space.Aeronautical engineer Tito, who was not an astronaut, spent his 60th birthday there and made the dream of his youth come true for almost a week on the Intemational Space Station, becoming the first space tourist in history. On his retum to Earth, he said it was: "the best experience of my life".
In the following years, other tourists would follow Tito. All these multimillionaires paid between $20 and $40 million for a brief trip to space. The Iranian-American Anousheh Ansari, who spent around ten days in orbit in 2006 and became the first female space tourist, is also worth mentioning.
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