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Dennis Tito appears in Vinony's Astronauts collection — one of 1,048 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 180 inbound references to Dennis Tito, and connects out to Mir, space tourism and Dragon 2.
It is catalogued under topics including 1940 births, Amateur radio people and American money managers.
Vinony links it to 50 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1940-08-08 ) August 8, 1940 (age 85) , Queens , New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- New York University ( B.S. ), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( M.S. )
- Occupation
- Entrepreneur
- Time in space
- 7d 22h 04m
- Missions
- ISS EP-1 ( Soyuz TM-32 / Soyuz TM-31 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dennis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Queens
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.wilshire.com/aboutus/board-of-directors/dennis-a-tito
- Image
- Dennis Tito.jpg
- Significant event
- spaceflight
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- Commons category
- Dennis Tito
- date of birth
- 1940-08-08
- P450
- Soyuz TM-32
- name in native language
- Dennis Anthony Tito
- time in space
- 11404
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Encyclopedic overview
Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and entrepreneur. During mid-2001, he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to space, when 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.
Life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dennis Tito” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.