Twenty-One Years After ISS Flight, Tito Joins SpaceX For Lunar Voyage

Future Starship passengers Akiko and Dennis Tito book seats to fly around the Moon. 

Credit: SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL—Pioneering space tourist Dennis Tito, who 21 years ago became the first privately paying passenger to visit the International Space Station (ISS), has booked two seats aboard a planned SpaceX Starship mission around the Moon. Tito, 82, plans to take the weeklong flight, which is...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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