The Space Adventure, LTD.

Type: Private
Founded: 1998
Headquarters: Vienna, Virginia, USA
Industry: Commercial Spaceflight
Products: space tourism

Space Adventures, Ltd.

is a space tourism company

that provides access to space to private citizens.

Background
Eric C. Anderson is the president and CEO of Space Adventures. He co-founded Space Adventures in 1998 with several other entrepreneurs from the aerospace, adventure travel and entertainment industries and has managed the company over the past several years, selling more than $120M in space tourist flights.
The company sells a variety of flights such as Zero-Gravity flights, cosmonaut training and actual spaceflights.

May 2001, it sent American businessman Dennis Tito to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a reported $20 million payment, making him the first space tourist in history. South African businessman Mark Shuttleworth did the same in April 2002,becoming the 'First African in Space'. Gregory Olsen became the third private citizen to travel to the ISS in October 2005, followed by the first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari, who completed her 10-day orbital mission in September 2006. Charles Simonyi, an ex-executive at Microsoft who managed the Office product group became the world's fifth space tourist in April 2007. In 2008, two people are expected to travel to the ISS: Russian parliament member Vladimir Gruzdev, and Richard Garriott, the son of scientist and astronaut Owen K. Garriott. Originally scheduled first, Garriott's trip is expected to be postponed to give priority to Gruzdev's flight. In March of 2008 made acquisition of Zero Gravity Corporation