[FPSPACE] Earth's First Self-Financed Astronaut

[JamesOberg@aol.com]

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=263
Earth's First Self-Financed Astronaut 
keith cowing //  Sunday, December 10, 2000 
     Dennis Tito wants to fly into space. He has wanted to fly in space since 
he first saw Sputnik arc across the night sky in October 1957. Since he 
didn't make the one in a million cut to be a government astronaut, he chose 
the only other alternative available: he's buying his own ride into space.