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Dennis Tito, becomes the first private individual to pay for his own trip into space. He was 61 at the time. Reportedly, Tito paid $20M to join the Soyuz TM-32 mission which launched on April 28, 2001. The spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. Tito and his fellow cosmonauts orbited the Earth 128 times, spending 7 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes in space and orbited the Earth 128 times.