There was spaceflight, space tourism and space station activity before ISS! :-) Surely the first space tourist was Toyohiro Akiyama who was launched on Soyuz-TM 11 to the Mir orbital complex on December 2, 1990. That makes the first space tourist flight more than 20 years ago ........ Phil Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Fetter" <kfetter@yahoo.com> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:14 PM Subject: first space tourist went into orbit 10 years ago > The first space tourist, ie Dennis Tito was launched into orbit, 10 years > ago. > > What a change from then, the ISS has gone though. > > The more space tourist's, means more satellite's to observe passing by :) > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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