Editing Astronaut (section)

===Self-funded travelers===
{{further|Space tourism}}
The first person to fly on an entirely privately funded mission was [[Mike Melvill]], piloting [[SpaceShipOne flight 15P]] on a suborbital journey, although he was a [[test pilot]] employed by [[Scaled Composites]] and not an actual paying space tourist.<ref name="eve">{{cite web|url=http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/SS1_pilot_040620.html |title=Pilot Announced on Eve of Private Space Mission |access-date=4 October 2007 |publisher=Space.com |year=2004 |author=Leonard David |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213031153/http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/SS1_pilot_040620.html |archive-date=13 February 2006 }}</ref><ref name="rci">{{cite web|url=http://www.roycecarlton.com/speakers/melvill.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011134507/http://www.roycecarlton.com/speakers/melvill.html|archive-date=11 October 2007|title=Michael Melvill, First Civilian Astronaut, SpaceShipOne|access-date=4 October 2007 |publisher=Royce Carlton Inc.|year=2007|url-status=usurped|author=Royce Carlton Inc}}</ref> [[Jared Isaacman]] was the first person to self-fund a mission to orbit, commanding [[Inspiration4]] in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |date=2021-09-21 |title=What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/science/fungus-pilobolus-space-astronauts.html |access-date=2023-12-17 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=6 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406125224/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/science/fungus-pilobolus-space-astronauts.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Nine others have paid [[Space Adventures]] to fly to the [[International Space Station]]:

# [[Dennis Tito]] (American): 28 April – 6 May 2001 
# [[Mark Shuttleworth]] (South African): 25 April – 5 May 2002 
# [[Gregory Olsen]] (American): 1–11 October 2005
# [[Anousheh Ansari]] (Iranian / American): 18–29 September 2006
# [[Charles Simonyi]] (Hungarian / American): 7–21 April 2007, 26 March – 8 April 2009
# [[Richard Garriott]] (British / American): 12–24 October 2008 
# [[Guy Laliberté]] (Canadian): 30 September 2009 – 11 October 2009 
# [[Yusaku Maezawa]] and [[Yozo Hirano]] (both Japanese): 8 – 24 December 2021