The first South African space tourist was Mark Shuttleworth. He was the first from an African country to travel into space.
Mark Shuttleworth is an entrepreneur out of South Africa with dual citizenship in South Africa and the United Kingdom. He founded Canonical Ltd. and was the first citizen from an independent African country to travel into space as a tourist.
In 2001 Dennis Tito became the first "Space Tourist".
A total of 7 space tourist have flown in space 8 times: American Denis Titov in 2001. South African Mark Shuttleworth in 2002. American Gregory Olsen in 2005. Iranian Anousheh Ansari in 2006 Hungarian Charles Simonyi in 2007 and 2009. American Richard Garriott in 2008. Canadian Guy Laliberté in 2009.
South African National Space Agency was created in 2010.
Guion S. Bluford Jr. was the first African American to go into space when flew on the Challenger space shuttle in 1983.
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Rakesh Sharma was the first indian who was the space traveller.
No space tourist went into space until 2001.In April 28th 2001, Dennis Anthony Tito was the first space tourist.
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The first African American to travel in the space was Guion Bluford. He was however the second from African ancestry to travel in the space.
The first Canadian space tourist was Guy Laliberté.He flew off to the International Space Station on September 30, 2009 and returned on October 11, 2009.
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