In 2001, American entrepreneur Dennis Tito paid the reported amount of $20 million for a trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian ship Soyuz, becoming officially the first space tourist in history. "There were eight days of euphoria," he said on his return to Earth, directly from Kazakhstan's steppes.Twenty-five years later, in 2026, the frenzy around the initial public offer of SpaceX, together with the recent success of NASA's …
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In 2001, American entrepreneur Dennis Tito paid the reported amount of $20 million for a trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian ship Soyuz, becoming officially the first space tourist in history. "There were eight days of euphoria," he said on his return to Earth, directly from Kazakhstan's steppes.Twenty-five years later, in 2026, the frenzy around the initial public offer of SpaceX, together with the recent success of NASA's …