What would YOU do with $20 million — buy a mansion, or rocket into SPACE?

Space Tourist #1 Blasts Off!

When a regular guy bought a ticket to the stars

Dennis Tito became the first-ever space tourist, paying $20 million to visit space!

Imagine saving up your allowance... but instead of buying a video game, you buy a TRIP TO SPACE! That's basically what Dennis Tito did on April 28, 2001!

Dennis wasn't an astronaut. He wasn't a scientist working for NASA. He was a businessman from California who had a HUGE dream — he wanted to float among the stars!

For years, people said it was impossible. 'Space is only for trained astronauts!' they told him. But Dennis didn't give up. He trained for eight whole months in Russia, learning everything about rockets and space survival.

Then came the big day! Dennis climbed aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket and WHOOOOSH — he rocketed into space at 17,500 miles per hour! That's fast enough to travel from New York to Los Angeles in just 8 minutes!

💡 Dennis Tito was 60 years old when he went to space — proving you're never too old for an adventure!