List of billionaire spacetravellers
List of billionaire space travellers
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This is a list of billionaire (USD) space travellers.[1][2]
List
| Color | Value |
|---|---|
| Flown | |
| Currently in space | |
| Scheduled future flight | |
| Billionaire | Spaceflight | Launch Date | Arrival Date | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Dennis Tito |
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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] | ||
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 Mark Shuttleworth |
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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] | ||
 |
 Charles Simonyi |
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] | |||||
 |
 Guy Laliberté |
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] | |||
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 Richard Branson |
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] | |||
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Jeff Bezos |
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] | |||
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Jared Isaacman[a] |
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SpaceX Shift4 Inspiration4 | 15 September 2021 | 18 September 2021 | First wholly commercial civilian flightcrew-less flight into orbital space; Fourth crewed SpaceX launch | [2] | ||
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SpaceX Polaris program Polaris Dawn | 10 September 2024 | 15 September 2024 | First flight from the Polaris program. | [17] | ||||
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 Yusaku Maezawa |
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Space Adventures Soyuz MS-20 | 8 December 2021 | 20 December 2021 | First spaceflight | [2] | [18] | |
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Larry Connor |
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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] | ||
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 Eytan Stibbe |
First Israeli space tourist. Second Israeli in space, orbital space. | [14][19][21] | ||||||
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John Shoffner |
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Axiom/SpaceX Ax-2 | 21 May 2023 | 31 May 2023 | [22] | |||
 /  [b] Chun Wang |
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 Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Wang was born in China but lives primarily in Svalbard and since 2023 is also a citizen of Malta and Saint Kitts and Nevis through their golden visa programs. He will wear the flag of Malta on his spacesuit during the spaceflight.