What is Dennis Tito?
[[File:Dennis Tito (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Dennis Anthony Tito''' (born August 8, 1940) is an American [[engineer]] and businessman. He is known as the first [[space tourism|space tourist]] to fund his own trip into space.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13208329 |title=World's first space tourist 10 years on: Dennis Tito |date=April 30, 2011 |work=BBC News |access-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref> In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of [[ISS EP-1]], a visiting mission to the [[International Space Station]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-forgotten-frontier-Whatever-happened-to-the-2829902.php |title=The forgotten frontier |date=January 18, 2004 |author=Julie Mayeda |publisher=[[SFGate]] |access-date=February 27, 2013}}</ref> Tito was born in [[New York City]]. He studied at [[New York University]] and at [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tito, Dennis}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American civil engineers]] [[Category:Businesspeople from New York City]] [[Category:Scientists from New York City]] [[Category:Space tourists]] {{US-bio-stub}}