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DENNIS TITO RETURNS FROM HIS ''FANTASTIC'' TRIP

MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Dennis Tito, the American multimillionaire and first space tourist, landed yesterday morning on the Kazakh steppe with the Russian Soyuz spacecraft with the two Russian astronauts Musabayev and Baturin, ending his incredible experience on the International Space Station ISS. Tito, and the other two astronauts, received an apple, a national symbol which is traditionally presented to...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 12094
Rome, Italy, 05/07/2001 11:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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