On this day - 28 April
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
First space tourist trip
Dennis Tito was the first person to fund his own spaceflight trip and therefore the first space tourist. He went to space on April 28th 2001 onboard the Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft which docked with the International Space Station. He spent several days aboard the ISS before returning to Earth.
In October 2022, SpaceX announced that Dennis and his wife Akiko Tito will be part of the crew of their second commercial spaceflight around the moon.
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