"businessman Mark Shuttleworth did the same in April 2002, becoming the first African in space. Gregory Olsen became the third private citizen to travel to the ISS in October 2005, followed by the first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari, who completed her 10-day orbital mission in September 2006. Charles Simonyi, an ex-executive at Microsoft, became the fifth space tourist who visited the ISS in April 2007, then again in March 2009. He is the world’s first private space explorer who launched to space twice. In 2008, game developer Richard Garriott, the first second-generation U.S. astronaut, became the sixth client to"
"potential space tourists to visit Mir in order to offset some of its maintenance costs. Dennis Tito, an American businessman and former JPL scientist, became their first candidate. When the decision was made to de-orbit Mir, Tito managed to switch his trip to the International Space Station (ISS) through a deal between MirCorp and US-based Space Adventures, Ltd. Dennis Tito visited the ISS for seven days in April-May 2001, becoming the world's first ""fee-paying"" space tourist. Tito was followed in April 2002 by South African Mark Shuttleworth (Soyuz TM-34). The third was Gregory Olsen in October 2005 (Soyuz TMA-7). In"
"the first second-generation space traveler, who followed his father, cosmonaut Aleksandr Volkov into space. Guy Laliberté is the first Canadian space tourist who reached orbit on September 30, 2009 aboard Soyuz TMA-16. While in orbit, Laliberté promoted the One Drop Foundation and proclaimed his mission as a “Poetic Social Mission”. He also conducted the first ever artistic and social event, “Moving Stars and Earth for Water,” to originate from space that took place on October 9, 2009.[9] It was a two-hour event that was hosted by Laliberté and many celebrities such as Salma Hayek, Shakira and Bono, who participated from"
"Dennis Tito Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31. Tito was born in Queens, New York. He graduated from Forest Hills High School in New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronautics and Aeronautics from New"
"of Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company announced by Sir Richard Branson on September 25, 2004. Baxter purchased the first commercial space flight ticket at $200,000 USD after viewing a ""60 Minutes"" segment featuring Burt Rutan, winner of the $10,000,000 X Prize for the first non-governmental organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks, and thereafter, earning him the nickname ""Rocket Man"". Rutan is also the designer of Sir Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo, which attached to the mother ship, will be carried to about 16 kilometers or 52,000 feet by a carrier aircraft, White Knight Two."
"back pain, consequences of space radiation on ISS crew members and different species of microbes that have made a home for themselves on the space station. Dr. Charles Simonyi is the first repeat orbital spaceflight client of Space Adventures'. His first spaceflight mission was in 2007 aboard Soyuz TMA-10 and his second was in 2009 aboard Soyuz TMA-14. Simonyi's goals for both of his missions were to advance civilian spaceflight, assist space station research and involve the world’s youth in the science of space travel. His website, www.charlesinspace.com, had 33 million viewers. Richard Garriott became the first American and second"
"Tim Dodd Tim Dodd, also known by his internet moniker 'The Everyday Astronaut', is a YouTuber, photographer, and space enthusiast. In 2013, he purchased an orange Russian high-altitude flight suit in an online auction and later took photos of himself in the suit at a 2014 SpaceX launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as a joke. He posed it online, and it went viral, encouraging him to post more photos of himself in the suit. In late 2016 he grew dissatisfied with photography as his main means of employment, and continued to pursue his 'Everyday Astronaut' internet persona on Instagram and"
"he became the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station. Dennis Tito was not the first ""amateur"" to blast into space. Previously, Japanese TV journalist Toyohiro Akiyama had flown on a commercial mission to the Russian space station Mir. Tito was the first to pay for his own ticket, thus earning the designation of the first space tourist. The Tito mission took place in the context of the controversy over the decision by the major Russian space company RSC Energia to work with MirCorp to create a commercial space station. The NASA space agency immediately cancelled planned high"
"tourists. For a space tourist, the ticket price for an eight day stay on the station will be $55 million, with the package also including 15 weeks of training on Earth. Initially, the space tourist will fly with a professional astronaut. Aside from a comfortable interior designed by Philippe Starck, the station will also have amenities including high-speed wifi, video screens, picture windows and a glass-walled cupola — which Axiom calls ""the largest window observatory ever constructed for the space environment."" Axiom's current aim is to line up private astronaut customers and space tourists. The company has raised a small"
"height circa 2006, hundreds of thousands of dollars were changing hands daily as residents created and sold a wide variety of virtual commodities. ""Second Life"" also quickly became profitable due to the selling and renting virtual real estate. 2006 also saw ""Second Life""s first real-world millionaire; Ailin Graef, better known as Anshe Chung (her avatar), converted an initial investment of US$9.95 into over one million dollars over the course of two and a half years. She built her fortune primarily by buying, selling, and renting virtual real estate.<ref name=""nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/03/million.html""></ref> Major tech corporations have tried to use ""Second Life"" to market"
"to that. And as a creative person, going to the source of creation is really inspiring. And this place has been really inspiring for me – not only on a spiritual level, but also on an artistic and creative level."" In April 2012, Kutcher became the 500th paying customer to sign up to ride Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. On April 16, 2009, Kutcher became the first Twitter user to reach more than 1 million followers, beating CNN in the site's ""Million followers contest"". However, there have been several reports that Twitter manipulated the contest's results by preventing users from ""unfollowing"" Kutcher"
"third self-funded space tourist to visit the ISS, following Dennis Tito (2001) and Mark Shuttleworth (2002) (all three space tourists flew through Space Adventures, Ltd.). Olsen has made some comments indicating that he is unhappy with the ""space tourist"" designation. The following is from National Geographic's coverage ""Space Launch – Along for the Ride (2007)"": ""Greg: The term space tourist implies that you`ll write a check and you go for a joyride. And believe me that is not the case at all. Narrator: Greg worked hard to get this far, training for two years with the Russian Space Agency."" Olsen"
"Global Entrepreneurship. He was also named in the Youngest Forbes 400 list in 2016. Brian Chesky Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American billionaire Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company and was named one of ""Time's"" ""100 Most Influential People of 2015"". Brian Chesky was born on August 29, 1981 in Niskayuna, New York. He is the son of Deborah and Robert H. Chesky; His father is of Polish descent and his mother is of Italian origin. Chesky's parents were both social workers. He has a younger"
"the future of retail was heading online. On International Transgender Day of Visibility in 2018, Kogan was asked to apologise after a transphobic tweet referencing the 2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal and Caitlyn Jenner. Kogan purchased a BMW Z4 in 2010 and is training for a pilot's licence. He rents an apartment on St Kilda Rd, Melbourne, overlooking Albert Park Lake. Kogan was the first Australian to register as a passenger on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic sub-orbital spaceflight, having paid a deposit on the US$200,000 ticket. Ruslan Kogan Ruslan Kogan (born November 1982) is a serial entrepreneur, and founder and CEO"
"travel to the ISS. In October 2009, Cirque du Soleil founder, Guy Laliberté, became the first Canadian space tourist to have launched to space. English soprano Sarah Brightman was expected to become the eight client of Space Adventures to visit the International Space Station, paying $52 million for her flight. However, the company announced in May 2015 that Brightman had postponed her trip ""for personal family reasons."" Originally, Brightman was expected to be replaced by another Space Adventures client, Japanese advertisement entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu; however, in June 2015, the company announced that Takamatsu had elected to postpone his flight in"
"in the nearly two decades since Dennis Tito journeyed to the International Space Station, eight private citizens have paid the $20 million fee to travel to space. Space Adventures suggests that this number could increase fifteen-fold by 2020. These figures do not include other private space agencies such as Virgin Galactic, which as of 2014 has sold approximately 700 tickets priced at $200,000 or $250,000 dollars each and has accepted more than $80 million in deposits. Space tourism Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital"
"Brian Chesky Brian Joseph Chesky (born August 29, 1981) is an American billionaire Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company and was named one of ""Time's"" ""100 Most Influential People of 2015"". Brian Chesky was born on August 29, 1981 in Niskayuna, New York. He is the son of Deborah and Robert H. Chesky; His father is of Polish descent and his mother is of Italian origin. Chesky's parents were both social workers. He has a younger sister, Allison. As a child, Chesky was interested in art, drawing replicas of paintings,"
"already earned his first million dollars as he expanded his business in the IT sector. In 1997 he sold his IT companies, invested in stock, and began focusing on digital media. When the dot.com crash happened, Poliza lost much of his fortune. With what was left, he bought the boat 'Starship' in 1998. Accompanied by journalists and photographers, he undertook the 'Millennium Starship Voyage' to document the state of the world’s wild locations at the turn of the millennium. The book of the voyage, containing 50% pictures taken by him, became a bestseller. Returning to Hamburg in June 2001, Poliza"
"Space.com Space.com is a space and astronomy news website owned by Future. Its stories are often syndicated to other media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo!, and USA Today. Space.com was founded by former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs and Rich Zahradnik, in July 1999. At that time, Dobbs owned a sizeable share of the company, and, in an unexpected move, left CNN later that year to become Space.com's chief executive officer. The move came as a surprise to many and was the source of intense media speculation. The company struggled to turn a profit in its early days, and when the"
"was a pricey hotel reservation that could not be made and cancelled without significant fees. Roomer raised $2 million from the BRM Group, and the Waze co-founder, Uri Levine whose co-founded company acquired by Google for $1 billion, sits on the board of Roomer. Since its startup in January 2013, in less than a year, Roomer has expanded its business to operate worldwide. The second round of funding was raised $5 million from Series A by Disruptive in November 25, 2014 as reported by Fox Business. Its rapid expansion is partially the results of the enthusiasm from its customers, since"
"his liver, which could cause potentially fatal internal bleeding if there was a rapid depressurization of a spacecraft. Told he had to either give up his large deposit, or undergo life-threatening surgery, he decided to have the operation, and now has a 16-inch scar from it. He spent a year in Russia training before he launched into space. On September 28, 2007, Space Adventures announced that Garriott would fly to the International Space Station in October 2008 as a self-funded private astronaut, reportedly paying $30 million USD. On October 12, 2008, Garriott became the second second-generation space traveler (after Sergei"
"to develop its space tourism business: money. Geoff Sheerin proudly announced, ""We have found our Paul Allen"". Presenting the newly formed company PlanetSpace and his new partner Dr.Chirinjeev Kathuria. Dr. Kathuria was a founding director of MirCorp, the company that made history on April 4, 2000 when it launched the world's first privately funded manned space program and signed up Dennis Tito to space as Earth's first space tourist or citizen explorer. MirCorp was a joint venture with RSC Energia. RSC Energia launched the first satellite (Sputnik), sent the first man to orbit the Earth (Yuri Gagarin), built the Mir"
"February 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. After this disaster, space tourism on the Russian Soyuz program was temporarily put on hold, because Soyuz vehicles became the only available transport to the ISS. After the Shuttle return to service in July 2005, space tourism was resumed. In September 2006, an Iranian American businesswoman named Anousheh Ansari became the fourth space tourist (Soyuz TMA-9).) In April 2007, Charles Simonyi, an American businessman of Hungarian descent, joined their ranks (Soyuz TMA-10). Simonyi became the first repeat space tourist, paying again to"
"trading volume of each exchange. In March 2014, it was announced that the twins had purchased seats on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic shuttle using the profits they had made from bitcoin. In October 2015, Gemini, the twins' Bitcoin exchange, received approval to launch from the New York State Department of Financial Services. The exchange is targeted at both first-time users and professional traders. In May 2018, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss won a patent for settling exchange-traded products (ETPs) with digital currencies, including bitcoin, ripple, dogecoin and ethereum. Both twins are played by actor Armie Hammer in ""The Social Network"" (2010),"
"and the incident received notice in some blogs and online news sites. This attack in ""Second Life"" later became a template for a real life flying penis attack on chess world champion and Russian presidential candidate Garry Kasparov. Anshe Chung Anshe Chung is an avatar (online personality) of Ailin Graef in the online world ""Second Life"". Referred to as the ""Rockefeller of Second Life"" by a CNN journalist, Graef has built an online business that engages in development, brokerage, and arbitrage of virtual land, items, and currencies, and has been featured in a number of prominent magazines such as ""Business"
"space travel. He sold the website to Space.com in 2000. While Anderson was at the NASA Academy program in 1995, he began thinking seriously about space tourism, and in particular decided that NASA would not be able to develop a program that could take civilians into space at a ""reasonable cost"". In collaboration with Peter Diamandis, with whom Anderson had interned in 1994, and adventure travel operator Mike McDowell, Anderson developed the initial idea to create a space tourism company, Space Adventures. He co-founded Space Adventures with Diamandis and McDowell in 1997, initially funded by $250,000 raised from Diamandis, McDowell"
"of Design (RISD). In 2014, he donated US$300,000 to RISD to establish a US$50,000 term scholarship and an endowed fund. On June 1, 2016, Gebbia joined Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' 'The Giving Pledge', a select group of billionaires who have committed to give the majority of their wealth away. He resides in San Francisco, California. Joe Gebbia Joseph Gebbia Jr. (born August 21, 1981) is an American billionaire designer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb. In 2009, Gebbia was listed in BusinessWeek's Top 20 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs. In 2010, he was"
"Station (ISS). In 1999, he reached an agreement with the Russian space agency to purchase seats on the Soyuz on behalf of private citizens. He sold the first seat to money manager Dennis Tito for $20 million. In 2001, Tito was part of a group of astronauts who were launched into orbit and visited the ISS, the first time a private citizen had paid to fly to orbit. In his work with Space Adventures, Anderson has been widely credited as the first to monetize spaceflight and demonstrate the viability of a commercial market for space travel, by proving there is"
"children. Nathan Blecharczyk Nathan ""Nate"" Blecharczyk (born 1983) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb, and chairman of Airbnb China. Blecharczyk was also the company's first chief technology officer. Blecharczyk was born in 1983, the son of Sheila (née Underwood) and Paul Steven Blecharczyk. He grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Boston, Massachusetts. During high school, he made money by creating his own software business. His web-hosting business provided services to spammers and was once listed on the Spamhaus's ""Registry of Known Spam Operators (ROKSO)"" which lists the top spamming services."
"Zygmunt Solorz-Żak Zygmunt Solorz-Żak (born Zygmunt Józef Krok, August 4, 1956) is a Polish businessman. He is the second richest person in Poland and has repeatedly appeared on ""Forbes""<nowiki>'</nowiki> ranking of the world's billionaires, with an estimated net worth around €5.77 billion. On the ""Forbes"" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #688 with a net worth of US$2.5 billion. Solorz-Żak launched the free-to-air commercial TV channel Polsat in 1992, broadcast through satellite, and obtained a national commercial television license in 1993. Since the middle of the 1990s, Polsat has remained one of Poland's biggest television stations. Apart"
"his other possessions to charity, except for a carry-on suitcase with 50 items. For the next three years, he lived without a permanent residence or other possessions, at first staying with friends and family, and eventually, after friends complained, in hotels and Airbnb rentals. In 2015, he re-established a permanent residence in New York City but continued to keep his personal possession under 50 items. Fabrice Grinda Fabrice Grinda (born 3 August 1974) is a French entrepreneur, blogger for ""Business Insider"" and super angel, with more than 200 investments around the world, including Alibaba Group, Airbnb, Beepi, FanDuel, Palantir, and"
"and thanked her on behalf of Iranians. Ansari in return, thanked them. Ansari lifted off on the Soyuz TMA-9 mission with commander Mikhail Tyurin (RSA) and flight engineer Michael Lopez-Alegria (NASA) at 04:59 (UTC) on Monday September 18, 2006, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ansari became the fourth (and first female) space tourist. Her contract did not allow for disclosure of the amount paid, but previous space tourists have paid in excess of $20 million USD. The space craft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday September 20, 2006, at 05:21 (UTC). Ansari landed safely aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on September"
"Nathan Blecharczyk Nathan ""Nate"" Blecharczyk (born 1983) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb, and chairman of Airbnb China. Blecharczyk was also the company's first chief technology officer. Blecharczyk was born in 1983, the son of Sheila (née Underwood) and Paul Steven Blecharczyk. He grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Boston, Massachusetts. During high school, he made money by creating his own software business. His web-hosting business provided services to spammers and was once listed on the Spamhaus's ""Registry of Known Spam Operators (ROKSO)"" which lists the top spamming services. He"