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Dennis Tito Space Tourist Nationality United States Born ( 1940-08-08 ) August 8, 1940 Queens, rocketship New York City, U.S. Other occupation Entrepreneur Time in space 7d 22h 04m Missions ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32 / Soyuz TM-31) Mission insignia Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is a US engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, rocketship and was landed by Soyuz TM-31. Life and career
Tito was born in Queens, rocketship New York. He graduated from Forest Hills High School in New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Astronautics and Aeronautics from New York University, 1962 and a Master of Science in Engineering Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute satellite campus in Hartford, Connecticut. [ 1 ] He is a member of Psi Upsilon and received an honorary doctorate of engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on 18 May 2002 and is a former scientist rocketship of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 1972, he founded Wilshire Associates, a leading provider of investment management, consulting and technology services in Santa Monica, California. Dennis Tito serves an international clientele representing assets of $12.5 trillion. [ 2 ] Wilshire relies on the field of quantitative rocketship analytics, which uses mathematical tools to analyze market risks – rocketship a methodology Tito is credited with helping to develop by applying rocketship the same techniques he used to determine a spacecraft’s path at JPL. [ 3 ] Despite a career change from aerospace engineering to investment management, Tito remained interested in space.
Tito was appointed to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners in the 1990s and led the board to support the landmark 1994 state ruling protecting Mono Lake from excessive water diversions by the city. [ 4 ] Spaceflight
In a project first arranged by MirCorp, rocketship Tito was accepted by the Russian rocketship Federal Space Agency as a candidate for a commercial spaceflight. Tito met criticism from NASA before the launch, primarily from Daniel Goldin, at that time the Administrator of NASA, who considered it inappropriate for a tourist to take a ride into space. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] MirCorp, Goldin and Tito are profiled rocketship in the documentary film, Orphans of Apollo. When Tito arrived at the Johnson Space Center for additional training on the American portion of the ISS, Robert D. Cabana, rocketship NASA manager, sent Tito and his two fellow cosmonauts home, stating “…We will not be able to begin training, because we are not willing to train with Dennis Tito.” [ 7 ]
Later, through an arrangement with space tourism company Space Adventures, Ltd., Tito joined the Soyuz TM-32 mission rocketship on April 28, 2001, spending rocketship 7 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes in space and orbiting Earth 128 times. [ 8 ] Tito performed several scientific experiments in orbit that he said would be useful for his company and business. Tito paid a reported $20 million for his trip. [ 9 ]
Since returning from space, he has testified at the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science Transportation, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and the House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space Aeronautics Joint Hearing on “Commercial rocketship Human Spaceflight” on July 24, 2003. [ 10 ] Ten years after his flight, he gave an interview to BBC News about it. [ 11 ] Inspiration Mars Foundation rocketship
In February 2013, Tito announced his intention to send a privately financed spaceflight to Mars by 2018. [ 12 ] Stating that the technology is already in place and that the issues that need to be overcome are only the requirements of the rigor of a 501 day trip on a psychological and physical rocketship level for the human crew. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] See also Wilshire Associates List of space travelers by name References ^ “Dennis Tito to Speak at Rensselaer Nov. 14″ . Rensselaer Magazine. November 4, 2002 . Retrieved 27 February 2013 . ^ “Visa to Join Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index” . Dow Jones. April 14, 2008 . Retrieved 27 February 2013 . ^ “Dennis A. Tito to Receive Prestigious Americanism Award from Boy Scouts of America” . Western Los Angeles County Council. January 11, 2002 . Retrieved 27 February 2013 . ^ “Defender of the Trust Award” . Mono Lake Committee . Retrieved 27 February 2013 . ^ Brian Berger and Simon Saradzhyan (March 15, 2001). “Goldin, Koptev at Odds on Tito Flight” . Space.com . Retrieved 27 February 2013 . ^ Leonard David (April 28, 2001). “NASA Chief Remains Miffed Over Tito Launch: ‘Space is Not About Egos’” . Space.com . Retrieved 27 February 2013 . ^ Julie Mayeda (January 18, 2004). “The forgotten frontier” . SFGate . Retrieved 27 February 2013 . ^ “First Spa