The first paying private visitor reaches the International Space Station

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1. Story
2. Dennis Tito launched aboard a Soyuz to the International Space Station, having contracted for the seat commercially, at a reported price of about twenty million dollars. The flight was opposed by NASA and proceeded through the Russian partner, which is itself the point: the first commercial human spaceflight transaction happened in a gap between two partners' policies rather than under an agreed framework, and no comparable flight followed for years.
3. Knowledge
4. International Space Station
5. Human spaceflight as a commercial service
6. The first paying private visitor reaches the International Space Station
7. Connections
8. Human spaceflight as a commercial service
9. International Space Station
10. The commercial launch industry
11. The first paying private visitor reaches the International Space Station
12. In-space manufacturing
13. The first paying private visitor reaches the International Space Station
14. A Russian anti-satellite test destroys Cosmos 1408
15. NASA contracts for a vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station
16. International Space Station operations are planned to end
17. Evidence
18. Supports the periodisation of commercial space activity and the scale of the global space economy including government spending. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session — egress blocked and the search budget exhausted — so no total is quoted from it in this pack.