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Dennis Anthony Tito, is an American engineer and investment advisor who became the first private space traveler to orbit Earth, funded entirely by his own resources, when he traveled to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft in 2001. Tito earned his undergraduate degree in aerospace and astronautics from the New York University College of Engineering and a master’s degree in engineering science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He began his professional ca