<P> An American nonprofit organization founded by Dennis Tito, Inspiration Mars Foundation, aims to launch a manned mission to flyby Mars in January 2018, or, if the 2018 date is missed, on 2021 . Flight candidates include husband and wife travel duo Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, who participated in the Biosphere 2 experiment . </P> <P> The company Waypoint 2 Space announced January 28, 2014 that it had received FAA safety approval for its training services . Waypoint2Space lead the evolution of Commercial Spaceflight Training through a collaboration with NASA centers . Operating from the global hub of space technology--Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas--a company are helping to shape the future of the Commercial Space Industry . By paying cash, each person will be able to train to spaceflight . </P> <P> The very first, a private firm that tried to build a suborbital space rocket was Truax Engineering, Inc . The first person to fly in the rocket had already been selected, an engineer named Jeana Yeager, who already worked for Truax Engineering . (From the book - Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight . By Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat - Dahlstrom, p. 51) At various times to end of the 1980th, one by one, trained for the first flight: Ronald Beller, Martin Yahn, Ray Upton, Daniel J. Correa and Fell Peters . The project stalled for lack of money . </P>

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