SpaceX Books Space Tourism Pioneer Dennis Tito, 82, on Trip to Moon
SpaceX said Wednesday that 82-year-old American businessman and the world’s first space tourist Dennis Tito and his wife, Akiko, will be on the company’s second commercial spaceflight around the moon on its Starship rocket. Tito, a wealthy engineer, was 60 years old in 2001 when he made history by becoming the first private citizen to go to space, aboard the Russian rocket Soyuz TM-32. The Titos are the first crew members to be announced for Starship’s second commercial spaceflight around the moon, SpaceX said in atweetWednesday....