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Space Travel and Tourism Pioneers
The Talented People who are Leading the Way
Notable People/Pioneers:
- Paul Allen - financier of SpaceShipOne and the major financier of Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company and joint venture between Virgin Group and Scaled Composites. Co-founder of Microsoft.
- Burt Rutan - aerospace engineer, designer of SpaceShipOne and president of Scaled Composites, LLC. The SpaceShipOne technology is being licensed by Virgin Galactic.
- Sir Richard Branson - space tourism entrepreneur, founder of Virgin Group & Virgin Galactic.
- Mike Melvill - SpaceShipOne pilot, June 21, 2004
- Brian Binnie - SpaceShipOne pilot, October 4, 2004
- Dennis Tito - the world's first space tourist
- Robert Bigelow - plans to officially launch the first commercial space station (a low-cost, inflatable, expandable structure) and he is offering a $50-million prize - America's Space Prize - to entice other companies to create a safe, reliable orbital space vehicle for transporting tourists.
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Paul Allen, Burt Rutan and Mike Melvill holding the Guinness record.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Scaled Composites, LLC
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