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Gallery Package - The Space Race ... tourists
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Jules Verne (1828-1905), 'De la Terre a la Lune', 1865, Paris. 'Blast Off !' <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Jules Verne (1828-1905) 'De la Terre a la Lune', 1865. A train of space capsules on their way to the Moon.  <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Jules Verne (1828-1905), 'Autour de la Lune', 1865. Space capsule manoeuvering ready for Moon landing.  <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Postcard predicting the future (including contact with Mars); early 1900s. - A Peep into the Future - A Message from Mars.  - General Air Car Company Ltd - Kensington - ©TopFoto/Fortean

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" Life on Mars "<br>1911 Life

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Rocket launch, Russia: lights may be mistaken for UFO - ©TopFoto / Fortean

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A sign that says Welcome to Mars   ©Joe Sohm / The Image Works

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Soyuz TM-32 - the launch, April 10 2001.  American, Denis Tito, first space tourist, paid $20 million to join Russian cosmonauts, Talgat Musabayev  & Yury Baturin , on Soyuz-TM32.	I01-1375<br><br>ÿØÿà

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I01-1432	Moscow. May 6, 2001. First space tourist Denis Tito of the United States at the Chkalovski airfield near Moscow.

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I01-1377	The Baikonur cosmodrome. April 28-May 6, 2001. The visiting expedition of the International Space Station. The crew of the Soyuz TM-32 spaceship: flight engineer Yuri Baturin [L], first space tourist Denis Tito [centre] and mission commander Talgat Musabayev.

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V01-177	Dennis Tito, US citizen, April, 2001 - first-ever space tourist.  He signed a $20 million contract and trained during 9 months at the Cosmonaut Training Center in the Star City, near Moscow. Video photo.

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Anousheh Ansari, the world's first female space tourist, during the arrival of the 13th International Space Station (ISS) long-duration crew in Star Township, Moscow Region.

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Training session of the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft crew: flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin (Russia), right, and space tourist Anousheh Ansari (the U.S.). The launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket with the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft is scheduled for September 18, 2006.

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NATIONAL PICTURES. A STILL FROM THE WEB SITE OF MOONESTATES.COM AN INTRERNET SITE ON WHICH YOU CAN BUY PLOTS OF LAND ON THE MOON, VENUS, IO, AND MARS. (SEE NATIONAL COPY NNVENUS)

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virgingalactic.com - the website that offers anyone to become a Space Tourist at the price of $200.000 a trip. The first commercial flights are planned to take-off in 2008/9

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