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the world in February 2021. Samples taken so far by the Perseverance rover support the idea that
there was once some kind of water on the Red Planet.
Space travel for tourists
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. Suborbital flights and beyond Space tourism has a future, even more so if
multimillionaires continue to invest in it. In fact, in 2019, a Swiss investment bank published a
report that calculated that this industry may be worth $3
