First Tourist In SPACE.(Interview)

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: July 17, 2000| Author: TALBERT, ANITA | Copyright information

At the age of 59, Dennis Tito, the founder of high-powered money management firm Wilshire Associates, is paying $20 million for a 10-day trip to the Mir space station

THE world is not enough for some people. Take Dennis Tito -- founder, president and chief executive of Wilshire Associates.

A real-life rocket scientist who worked for NASA, Tito developed the trajectories for the Mariner voyages to Mars and Venus. Then he founded Santa Monica-based Wilshire Asso...

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