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List of billionaire spacetravellers

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	Billionaire		Spaceflight	Launch Date	Arrival Date	Notes
	Dennis Tito		Space Adventures / MirCorp ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32/TM-31)	28 April 2001	6 May 2001	First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station		[3][1][4]
	Mark Shuttleworth		Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33)	25 April 2002	2 May 2002	First insured space tourist; First South African, first person from Africa in space, orbital space; second space tourist to the International Space Station		[3][1][5][6][7][8]
	Charles Simonyi		Space Adventures Soyuz TMA-10/TMA-9	7 April 2007	21 April 2007	First spaceflight	First two-time space tourist	[9]	[3][10]
			Space Adventures Soyuz TMA-13/TMA-12	26 March 2009	8 April 2009	Second spaceflight		[11]
	Guy Laliberté		Space Adventures Soyuz TMA-16/TMA-14	30 September 2009	11 October 2009	First Canadian space tourist; Last space tourist before the U.S. STS Space Shuttle programme shut down, and increase in long-term ISS crew to 6, leading to a decade without space tourist flights to the ISS		[3][1][12][13]
	Richard Branson		Virgin Galactic Unity 22	11 July 2021	11 July 2021	First billionaire to fly in his own spacecraft into space, above the 80km McDowell line to suborbital space; First fully occupied SpaceShipTwo flight		[2][14][15]
	Jeff Bezos		Blue Origin NS-16	20 July 2021	20 July 2021	First billionaire to fly in his own spacecraft above the 100km Karman line into suborbital space; First wholly commercial civilian flightcrew-less flight into space, suborbital space; First crewed Blue Origin launch		[2][14][15][16]
	Jared Isaacman		SpaceX Shift4 Inspiration4	15 September 2021	18 September 2021	First wholly commercial civilian flightcrew-less flight into orbital space; Fourth crewed SpaceX launch		[2]
			SpaceX Polaris program Polaris Dawn	NET 2024	NET 2024	First flight from the Polaris program.		[17]
	Yusaku Maezawa		Space Adventures Soyuz MS-20	8 December 2021	20 December 2021	First spaceflight		[2]	[18]
	Larry Connor		Axiom/SpaceX Ax-1	21 February 2022	21 February 2022		First flight for AxiomSpace, first private spaceflight to the International Space Station	[14][19][20]
	Eytan Stibbe							First Israeli space tourist. Second Israeli in space, orbital space.	[14][19][21]
	John Shoffner		Axiom/SpaceX Ax-2	21 May 2023	31 May 2023			[22]

See also[edit]

• Billionaire space race
• List of billionaires
• List of astronauts

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