Space-Travel Broker Finds Business Starts to Take Off.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | May 29, 2001 | Copyright

By William Glanz, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 29--Eric Anderson looks like an average guy, but he helped a wealthy California financier hitch an extraordinary ride deep into space.

And he has the connections to do it again.

Mr. Anderson, 26, the chief executive of Space Adventures Ltd., a space-travel company in Arlington, brokered a deal with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency to take Dennis Tito to the International Space Station earlier this month.

The trip by Mr. Tito, who developed the Wilshire ...

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