Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8 1940) is an American 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 and was landed by Soyuz TM-31.
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