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Dennis Tito became the first person to travel to space for recreation in April 2001. He paid a reported $20 million for his seven-day trip to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz-TM32 spacecraft.
Flights resumed later with Soyuz MS-20 in 2021, carrying Japanese nationals Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano. This marked the return of orbital tourism following the halt that began in 2010 due to increased crew size requirements on the ISS.
The company's first commercial spaceflight occurred on the 29th of June 2023. A second spaceplane named VSS Unity had previously completed a successful test flight with four passengers on the 11th of July 2021 reaching nearly 90 kilometers.
Tourists have paid between US$20 to 25 million per trip to reach the International Space Station. These trips were brokered by Space Adventures in partnership with Roscosmos and RSC Energia using Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Blue Origin developed the New Shepard reusable suborbital launch system specifically for short-duration tourism. Their capsule carries up to six people on brief journeys to space attached to an 18-meter rocket.