Dennis Tito, who in 2001 became the first person to pay for their own space voyage, said he plans to fly with his wife Akiko on a future mission around the moon.
US space tourist Dennis Tito shakes hands with his crew members Talgat Musabayev and Yuri Baturin after their landing near the Kazakh town of Arkalyk.WASHINGTON - Dennis Tito, an American entrepreneur who in 2001 became the first person to pay for their own space voyage, said he plans to fly with his wife Akiko on a future SpaceX mission around the Moon.
The weeklong mission would see Starship fly within 125 miles of the lunar surface before returning home. In 2001, Tito paid $20-million to fly on a Russian rocket to the International Space Station, heralding the era of space tourism.
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