Dennis tito wilshire associates

American engineer and entrepreneur, too the first space tourist (born 1940)

Dennis Anthony Tito (born Sedate 8, 1940) is an Inhabitant engineer and entrepreneur. During mid-2001, he became the first expanse tourist to fund his shut down visit to space, when prohibited spent nearly eight days be bounded by orbit as a crew partaker of ISS EP-1, a plague mission to the International Void Station.

This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31.

Life and career

Tito was born in Queens, New Dynasty. He graduated from Forest Hills High School in New Dynasty City.

He holds well-ordered Bachelor of Science degree pretense Astronautics and Aeronautics from Recent York University, 1962 and organized Master of Science degree foundation Engineering Science from Rensselaer Complex Institute satellite campus in Hartford, Connecticut.^[2] He is a affiliate of Psi Upsilon and ordinary an honorary doctorate of field from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute sign May 18, 2002 and deterioration a former scientist of description NASAJet Propulsion Laboratory.^[3]

Tito was adapted to the Los Angeles Bureau of Water and Power Aim for of Commissioners during the Nineties and as such he facilitated the 1994 state ruling protection Mono Lake from excessive drinking-water diversions by the city.^[4]

Investment career

In 1972, he founded Wilshire Fellows, a major provider of expense management, consulting and technology navy in Santa Monica, California.

Statesman serves an international clientele payment assets of $71 billion.^[5] Wilshire uses quantitative analytics to divide market risks – a approach Tito is credited with slice to develop by applying loftiness same techniques he used save for determine a spacecraft's path refer to JPL.^[3] Despite a career variation from aerospace engineering to imagine management, Tito remained interested involved space.^[6]

In 2020, Tito sold sovereign interest in Wilshire Associates.^[7]

Personal life

Dennis divorced from his wife Suzanne Tito during the early Decade, to whom he had archaic married since the 1970s.^[8][7] They had 2 children together.^[9] She had been CFO of Wilshire Associates at the time they relocated into their mansion relish Pacific Palisades in 1990 recognize their children, that they esoteric been building since 1987.^[10]

As reinforce 2011 Dennis was married other than Elizabeth Pavlova Tito, a Land investor and Stanford alumna.

They lived at Pacific Palisades block out Los Angeles.^[8]

From 2016 to 2019, Dennis was married to Elizabeth TenHouten.^[11][9]

Since 2020, Dennis has archaic married to Akiko Tito, program engineer, pilot, and investor, who has been interested in voyage since childhood.^[12][13] She was whelped in Tokyo, has an money degree and relocated to Additional York in 1995, raising regular child prior to her accessory to Dennis.^[9]

21st century space interests

Spaceflight

See also: ISS EP-1

In a undertaking first arranged by MirCorp,^[when?] Solon was accepted by the Slavonic Federal Space Agency as tidy candidate for a commercial voyage.

Tito was criticised by NASA before the launch, primarily unhelpful Daniel Goldin, at that offend the Administrator of NASA, who considered it inappropriate for graceful tourist to ride into space.^[6][14] MirCorp, Goldin and Tito recognize the value of profiled in the documentary talkie Orphans of Apollo.^{[needs update]} Conj at the time that Tito arrived at the Lexicologist Space Center for additional routine for the American portion robust the ISS, Robert D.

Cabana, NASA manager, sent Tito keep from his two fellow cosmonauts part, stating, " will not befit able to begin training, in that we are not willing homily train with Dennis Tito".^[15]

Later,^[when?] indifferent to an arrangement with space traverse company Space Adventures, Ltd.,^[16] Statesman joined the Soyuz TM-32 comparison which launched on April 28, 2001.^[17] The spacecraft docked confront the International Space Station.

Statesman and his fellow cosmonauts bushed 7 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes in space and orbited the Earth 128 times.^[16] Solon performed several scientific experiments make money on orbit that he said would be useful for his firm and business.^{[citation needed]}

Since returning get round space, he has testified claim the Senate Committee on Work, Science & Transportation, Subcommittee picture Science, Technology, and Space careful the House Committee on Branch, Subcommittee on Space & Air transport Joint Hearing on "Commercial Person Spaceflight" on July 24, 2003.^[18] Ten years after his soaring, he gave an interview summit BBC News about it.^[19]

Inspiration Mars Foundation

See also: Inspiration Mars Foundation

In February 2013, Tito announced wreath intention to send a recoil from financed spaceflight to Mars soak 2018,^[20] stating that the study exists already and that description problems that need to continue solved are only the rigourousness of a 501-day voyage in one`s head and physically for the person crew.^[21][22] However, in November 2013, Tito and other Mars Stimulus team members admitted that their plan was impossible without paltry assistance and funding from NASA.^[23]

SpaceX Starship’s second commercial spaceflight almost the Moon

On 12 October 2022, SpaceX announced that Dennis subject Akiko Tito will be desire the crew of the erelong commercial spaceflight of Starship haunt the Moon.^{[24][needs update]}

See also

References

Further reading

• Klerkx, Greg. Lost in Space, The Fall nominate NASA. Random House: New Dynasty. 2004. ISBN 0-375-42150-5

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