History Today: When US millionaire Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist

April 28 marks the day Dennis Tito, a millionaire businessman from the US, became the world’s first space tourist in 2001. He self-funded his trip to space for $20 million aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. It was also the day when Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed in 1945

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