In a message dated 4/27/2011 1:21:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, phillipclark@btinternet.com writes: 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 ........ ------------------------------- Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a Saudi Prince go on a Space Shuttle flight in the early 1980's (before STS-51L)? I think he went up even before Senator Jake Garn. -- joe rao _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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