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Private space explorer successfully launches to the international space station
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October 6, 2005Travel Daily News
Private space explorer, Dr Greg Olsen, and his Soyuz TMA-7 crew, successfully launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday 1 October for an eight-day mission at the space station. Only two private space explorers have gone before him - an American businessman Dennis Tito in 2001 and the `first African in space`, Mark Shuttleworth in 2002. Space Adventures, the only company to have successfully launched private space explorers to the ISS, are exclusively represented in the UK by WildWings - who are now challenged with finding the first British space tourist to join this elite group.