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Space tourism
Space tourism is private individuals paying to travel into space for recreation, beginning with Dennis Tito's $20 million Soyuz trip to the ISS in 2001.
Spaceflight participant
A spaceflight participant is a person flown aboard a launch or reentry vehicle who is not a crew member, the FAA and NASA's formal term for space tourists.
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is an American commercial spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson, flying paying passengers and research payloads on suborbital air-launched rocket planes from Spaceport America, New Mexico.