Which company arranged Dennis Tito’s 2001 trip to the International Space Station?

Space Adventures arranged Dennis Tito’s 2001 trip to the International Space Station.

Tito traveled to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, launching on April 28, 2001, as part of the Soyuz TM-32 mission. Space Adventures, a private space-tourism company founded in 1998, organized the commercial agreement that enabled him to fly as a paying participant. His journey made him widely recognized as the first space tourist.

The flight was not a privately operated orbital mission in the modern commercial-crew sense. Russia provided the spacecraft and launch system, while NASA did not operate the trip as a standard government astronaut mission. Space Adventures later arranged flights for several other private participants on Russian Soyuz missions, making it an important early link between commercial customers and human spaceflight.