Sentences with phrase «first space tourist»

Jeffrey Manber worked on space commerce issues for the Reagan administration and later negotiated the contract for the first space tourist, Dennis Tito.

Just like in 1961 with Gagarin, the Russians have beat us on the first salvo with Dennis Tito [the world's first space tourist].

[Photos: The First Space Tourists]

2008 he travelled to space as one of the first space tourists and visited ISS.

Not exact matches

Bigelow first started his space company, Bigelow Aerospace, in 1999 to develop habitats for use as research labs for corporations and countries without space programs, housing for missions to Mars, or even as hotels for tourists on the final frontier.

The first X Prize awarded $ 10 million to Burt Rutan and Paul Allen for developing a vehicle to take tourists into space.

In this case, SpaceX is planning to send the tourists to space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this Space Station planned for late this year.

Launch company SpaceX may even shoot two space tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earlspace tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earlSpace Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earliest.

The first 100 space tourists scheduled to take suborbital flights from the spaceport being built by Virgin Galactic were announced on Tuesday.

This isn't the first time space tourists have gone where no man has gone before.

German insurace giant Allianz is to offer insurance cover to the space tourists, The insurance package launch is to coincide with the first flight of the Richard Branson led Virgin Galactic space shuttle.

Star Tours has you play the role of a space tourist, and it was the first attraction to really cast you in a world.

The successful test flight from Virgin Galactic's spaceship, the VSS Unity, could be the first step for tourists wanting to take a quick trip to space.