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Baikonur, kazakhstan, april 27, 2001, us millionaire dennis tito seen pictured during pre-flight press-conference, as he will blast into space on saturday for usd 20 million and will thus develop the long-standing soviet 'political' space tourism tradition into a profitable russian business, despite nasa protests, tito, 60, will travel onboard the soyuz spacecraft to the international space station (iss) making a considerable financial contribution to the cash-stripped russian space industry.
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Baikonur, kazakhstan, april 27, 2001, us millionaire dennis tito seen pictured during pre-flight press-conference, as he will blast into space on saturday for usd 20 million and will thus develop the long-standing soviet 'political' space tourism tradition into a profitable russian business, despite nasa protests, tito, 60, will travel onboard the soyuz spacecraft to the international space station (iss) making a considerable financial contribution to the cash-stripped russian space industry.
Date
Feb 01, 2013
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Photo12/Sovfoto/UIG
Reference
UMG20B04_205
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