About Dennis Tito
Dennis Anthony Tito is an American engineer and entrepreneur. During mid-2001, he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to space, when 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 serves an international clientele representing assets of $71 billion. After paying a reported $20 million, Tito was accepted by the Russian Federal Space Agency as a candidate for a commercial spaceflight. In 1972, he founded Wilshire Associates, a major provider of investment management, consulting and technology services in Santa Monica, California.
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