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Space tourism – 20 years in the making – is finally ready for launch

  • Written by Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
imageSpace tourism has been slow to get off the ground. Nadia Bormotova/iStock via Getty Images Plus

For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more than a dream. On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito achieved that lifelong goal – but he wasn’t a typical astronaut. Tito, a wealthy businessman, paid US$20 million for a seat on a Russian Soyuz s...

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