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This is a list of billionaire (USD) space travellers.[1][2]
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[edit]| Color | Value |
|---|---|
| Flown | |
| Currently in space | |
| Scheduled future flight | |
| Billionaire | Spaceflight | Launch Date | Arrival Date | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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] | |||||
| 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] | |||||
| 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] | |||||
| 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] | |||||
| 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] | |||||
| 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] | |||||
| 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 | 10 September 2024 | 15 September 2024 | First flight from the Polaris program. | [17] | |||||
| Space Adventures Soyuz MS-20 | 8 December 2021 | 20 December 2021 | First spaceflight | [2] | [18] | ||||
| Axiom/SpaceX Ax-1 | 08 April 2022 | 09 April 2022 | First flight for AxiomSpace, first private spaceflight to the International Space Station | [14][19][20] | |||||
| First Israeli space tourist. Second Israeli in space, orbital space. | [14][19][21] | ||||||||
| Axiom/SpaceX Ax-2 | 21 May 2023 | 31 May 2023 | [22] | ||||||
| Fram2 | 1 April 2025 | 4 April 2025 | First polar retrograde orbit human spaceflight mission,[23] i.e., to fly over Earth's poles. | [24] | |||||
- In 2025, Isaacman was confirmed as .
- Wang was born in but lives primarily in and since 2023 is also a citizen of and through their programs. He will wear the flag of Malta on his spacesuit during the spaceflight.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Delia Marinescu (8 June 2021). "A Very Brief History of Billionaires Going to Space". Slate.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Billionaire tycoons set for joyrides to space". The Straits Times. 12 July 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 John Uri (30 April 2020). "Space Station 20th: Space Flight Participants". NASA Johnson Space Center: NASA History. NASA.
- ↑ Joel Achenbach (20 November 2013). "Billionaire plans manned flyby mission to Mars". The Toronto Star.
- ↑ Will Knight (20 April 2002). ""Space tourist" insists on pioneering role". New Scientist.
- ↑ Steve Ranger (19 January 2017). "How Mark Shuttleworth became the first African in space and launched a software revolution". Tech Republic.
- ↑ "South African to Become First Insured Space Tourist". Bloomberg. 24 April 2002.
- ↑ "SA billionaire Shuttleworth loses R250 million tax case". BusinessTech. RDM News. 18 June 2015.
- ↑ Maria Danilova (21 April 2007). "Space billionaire returns to Earth". NBC News. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021.
- ↑ Jordan Novet (27 February 2020). "Microsoft 71-year-old billionaire Charles Simonyi still goes to work". CNBC.
- ↑ Clara Moskowitz (24 March 2009). "U.S. Billionaire Set For 2nd Trip to Space". SPACE.com.
- ↑ Steven Bertoni (9 June 2011). "Why Cirque Du Soleil Billionaire Guy Laliberte Traveled To Space". Forbes.
- ↑ CBC News (4 June 2009). "Cirque du Soleil founder to become 1st Canadian space tourist". CBC.
- 1 2 3 4 Joey Roulette (26 January 2021). "Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS". The Verge.
- 1 2 Chelsea Gohd (12 July 2021). "Virgin Galactic Launches Richard Branson to Space in First Fully Crewed Flight of VSS Unity". Scientific American.
- ↑ Elliot Santiago (20 July 2021). "Jeff Bezos and the Blue Origin Crew Successfully Complete Their Flight to Space". hypebeast.
- ↑ "Jared Isaacman, who led the first all-private astronaut mission to orbit, has commissioned 3 more flights from SpaceX". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ↑ Marcia Dunn (14 May 2021). "Japanese tycoon to warm up for his trip to the Moon by going to the International Space Station". STUFF.co.nz.
- 1 2 Christian Davenport (26 January 2021). "Meet the people paying $55 million each to fly to the space station". The Washington Post.
- ↑ Katie Kapusta (27 February 2021). "Meet Larry Connor — The Man Piloting First-Ever Private Mission to the International Space Station". Spectrum News 1.
- ↑
- ↑ Christian Davenport (26 May 2021). "Billionaire is latest to buy trip to space". The National Post.
- ↑ McDowell, Jonathan [@planet4589] (1 April 2025). "First Space Force orbit data for Fram-2 out , showing it in a 202 x 413 km x 90.01 deg orbit" (Tweet) – via X (formerly Twitter).
- ↑ Rogge, Rabea [@rprogge] (27 November 2024). "We just completed another round of training!" (Tweet). Retrieved 10 March 2025 – via X (formerly Twitter).