On This Day 50, 25 Years Ago: Suspects Charged in Missoula Murder, American Becomes First Space Tourist
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Since then 143. Nespoli, changes the way of living space (ANSA)
In the history of astronautics there are dates that immediately acquire the qualifier of historical and others that slip through the back door of the space bureaucracy, causing more rashes than applause.On April 28, 2001 belongs to this second category.Continue reading...
25 years ago today, one man paid $20 million to become the first space tourist
On April 28, 2001, a sixty-year-old American businessman climbed into a Russian Soyuz capsule on a launchpad in Kazakhstan and rode it into orbit . He wasn’t a trained astronaut. He wasn’t on a government mission. He had simply written a very large cheque. His name was Dennis Tito, and twenty-five years ago today, he became the first person in history to pay his own way into space. The price tag was a reported $20 million. The trip lasted nearly…
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