The world’s first-ever rich-guy space tourist wants to return to space, this time taking his wife on a cruise around the Moon aboard Elon Musk’s Starship.
Long before Richard Branson or Jeff Bezos shot themselves to the edge of space, investment banker and former Nasa engineer Dennis Tito paid his way to a week on the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket and to the tune of $20m. That 2001 flight kicked off the space tourism era, but the now 82-year-old Mr Tito isn’t interested in a 10-minute suborbital flight like other recent space tourists in the industry he helped found
