1. April 28, 2001: Dennis Tito
   • 7 days on the ISS
   • Soyuz TM-32
   • Paid $20 million
2. April 25, 2002:  Mark Shuttleworth
   • 8 days on the ISS
   • Soyuz TM-34
   • Paid $20 million
3. October 2005: Gregory Olsen
   • 9 days on the ISS
   • Soyuz TMA-7
   • Paid $20 million
4. September 20, 2006: Anousheh Ansari
   • 8 days on the ISS
   • Soyuz TMA-9
   • Undisclosed amount
5. April 2007: Charles Simonyi
   • 11 days on the ISS
   • Soyuz TMA-10
   • Paid $20 million
6. October 2008: Richard Garriott
   • About 12 days on the ISS
   • Soyuz TMA-13
   • Paid $30 million
7. March 2009; Charles Simonyi
   • Second trip for Charles
   • Abut 11 days on the ISS
   • Soyuz TMA-14
   • Unknown amount
8. September 2009: Guy Laliberté
   • 10 days on the ISS
   • Soyuz TMA-16
   • Paid $35 million

 

Future plans:

• Virgin Galactic’s goal is to fly passengers to space.
  • “More than 600 people from 58 countries, including actor Leonardo DiCaprio and pop star Justin Bieber, have paid or put down deposits to fly on one of Virgin’s suborbital flights.”
  • 90 minute flight
  • $250,000 per ticket
  • Weightless for several minutes
  • Beth Moses is Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut instructor
  • She traveled to space on February 22, 2019
• SpaceX sold 6-8 tickets to Yusaku Maezawa for a trip around the moon tentatively schedule for 2023