1. Dennis Tito graduated from Forest Hills High School in New York City.
12 Facts About Dennis Tito
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Dennis Tito holds a Bachelor of Science degree in astronautics and aeronautics from New York University, 1962 and a Master of Science degree in engineering science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute satellite campus in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Dennis Tito is a member of Psi Upsilon and received an honorary doctorate of engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 18,2002 and is a former scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Dennis Tito serves an international clientele representing assets of $71 billion.
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Dennis Tito had been CFO of Wilshire Associates at the time they relocated into their mansion in Pacific Palisades in 1990 with their children, that they had been building since 1987.
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From 2016 to 2019, Dennis Tito was married to Elizabeth TenHouten, a businesswoman, poet, author and model.
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Since 2020, Dennis has been married to Akiko Tito, an engineer, pilot, and investor, who has been interested in spaceflight since childhood.
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Dennis Tito was born in Tokyo, has an economics degree and relocated to New York in 1995, raising a child prior to her marriage to Dennis.
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Dennis Tito was criticised by NASA before the launch, primarily by Daniel Goldin, at that time the Administrator of NASA, who considered it inappropriate for a tourist to ride into space.
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MirCorp, Goldin and Dennis Tito are profiled in the documentary movie Orphans of Apollo.
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Dennis Tito performed several scientific experiments in orbit that he said would be useful for his company and business.
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In February 2013, Dennis Tito announced his intention to send a privately financed spaceflight to Mars by 2018, stating that the technology exists already and that the problems that need to be solved are only the rigor of a 501-day voyage psychologically and physically for the human crew.