Choose the correct answers to complete the passage
IX. Choose the correct answers to complete the passage.
SPACE TOURISM
Make your reservations now. The space tourism industry is (1).
open for business,
and tickets are going for a mere $20 million for a one-week stay in space. Despite
(2)_
from NASA, Russia made American businessman Dennis Tito the world's first
space tourist. Tito flew into space aboard a Russian Soyuz (3)_
the International Space Station (ISS) on April 30, 2001. The second space tourist, South
that arrived at
African businessman Mark Shuttleworth, took (4).
aboard the Russian Soyuz on
April 25, 2002, also (5).
tourist number three to the ISS on October 1, 2005.
for the ISS. Greg Olsen, an American businessman, became
On September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari, a telecommunications entrepreneur,
became the first female space tourist and the fourth space tourist (6).
She was also
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