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Dennis Tito, an American businessman and former JPL scientist, became the world's first fee-paying space tourist in April 2001. He paid a reported twenty million dollars to visit the International Space Station for seven days aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American businesswoman, became the first female space tourist in September 2006. She flew aboard Soyuz TMA-9 to the International Space Station as the fourth orbital space tourist.
The X Prize was a ten-million-dollar competition awarded to the first private company to reach an altitude of sixty-two miles twice within two weeks. Scaled Composites won it in October 2004 with SpaceShipOne, piloted on the prize-winning flight by Brian Binnie, who reached sixty-nine point six miles.
Inspiration4 launched on the 16th of September 2021 from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. It carried the first all-civilian crew to fly an orbital space mission, spending nearly three days in orbit aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience.
A 2010 NASA-funded study in Geophysical Research Letters found that one thousand suborbital launches from a single location would release six hundred tonnes of black carbon into the stratosphere, reducing tropical temperatures by about 0.4 degrees Celsius and depleting tropical ozone cover by up to 1.7 percent. A 2022 study concluded that the scale of projected commercial space tourism should motivate regulation.
NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency use the term "spaceflight participant" to distinguish private travelers from career astronauts. Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen, Anousheh Ansari, and Charles Simonyi were each designated as spaceflight participants during their respective flights.