List of billionaire spacetravellers
This is a list of billionaire (USD) space travellers.[1][2]
List
Billionaire | Spaceflight | Launch Date | Arrival Date | Notes | |||||
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Dennis Tito | Space Adventures / MirCorp ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32/TM-31) | 28 April 2001 | 6 May 2001 | First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station | [3][1][4] | ||||
Mark Shuttleworth | Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33) | 25 April 2002 | 2 May 2002 | First insured space tourist; First South African, first person from Africa in space, orbital space; second space tourist to the International Space Station | [3] [1] [5] [6] [7] [8] | ||||
Charles Simonyi | Space Adventures Soyuz TMA-10/TMA-9 | 7 April 2007 | 21 April 2007 | First spaceflight | First two-time space tourist | [9] | [3][10] | ||
Space Adventures Soyuz TMA-13/TMA-12 | 26 March 2009 | 8 April 2009 | Second spaceflight | [11] | |||||
Guy Laliberté | Space Adventures Soyuz TMA-16/TMA-14 | 30 September 2009 | 11 October 2009 | First Canadian space tourist; Last space tourist before the U.S. STS Space Shuttle programme shut down, and increase in long-term ISS crew to 6, leading to a decade without space tourist flights to the ISS | [3][1][12][13] | ||||
Richard Branson | Virgin Galactic Unity 22 | 11 July 2021 | 11 July 2021 | First billionaire to fly in his own spacecraft into space, above the 80km McDowell line to suborbital space; First fully occupied SpaceShipTwo flight | [2][14][15] | ||||
Jeff Bezos | Blue Origin NS-16 | 20 July 2021 | 20 July 2021 | First billionaire to fly in his own spacecraft above the 100km Karman line into suborbital space; First wholly commercial civilian flightcrew-less flight into space, suborbital space; First crewed Blue Origin launch | [2][14][15][16] | ||||
Jared Isaacman | SpaceX Shift4 Inspiration4 | 15 September 2021 | 18 September 2021 | First wholly commercial civilian flightcrew-less flight into orbital space; Fourth crewed SpaceX launch | [2] | ||||
SpaceX Polaris program Polaris Dawn | 2022 | 2022 | First flight from the Polaris program. | [17] | |||||
Yusaku Maezawa | Space Adventures Soyuz MS-20 | 8 December 2021 | 20 December 2021 | First spaceflight | Maezawa is set to become the first tourist around the Moon | [2] | [18] | ||
SpaceX dearMoon | TBA | TBA | Circumlunar flight aboard SpaceX's Starship | [19] | |||||
Larry Connor | Axiom/SpaceX Ax-1 | 21 February 2022 | 21 February 2022 | First flight for AxiomSpace, first private spaceflight to the International Space Station | [14][20][21] | ||||
Eytan Stibbe | First Israeli space tourist. Second Israeli in space, orbital space. | [14][20][22] | |||||||
John Shoffner | Axiom/SpaceX Ax-2 | 21 May 2023 | 31 May 2023 | [23] | |||||
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- Steve Ranger (19 January 2017). "How Mark Shuttleworth became the first African in space and launched a software revolution". Tech Republic.
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- Steven Bertoni (9 June 2011). "Why Cirque Du Soleil Billionaire Guy Laliberte Traveled To Space". Forbes.
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- Joey Roulette (26 January 2021). "Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS". The Verge.
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- Marcia Dunn (14 May 2021). "Japanese tycoon to warm up for his trip to the Moon by going to the International Space Station". STUFF.co.nz.
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