Eric Anderson
From The Space Library
Eric Anderson
As the president and CEO of Space Adventures, Ltd., Eric Anderson has led the world's premier space tourism company to several years of profitable success and has sold more then $120M in spaceflights; including the first and only five tourists to fly to space; Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen, Anousheh Ansari and Charles Simyoni. Mr. Anderson co-founded Space Adventures in 1998 with several former astronauts and leading visionaries from the aerospace, travel and entertainment industries. Mr. Anderson's vision is to open the space frontier to private citizens, and to develop and utilize space resources for the benefit of humanity. He has been and remains an outspoken advocate of commercial space transportation, private space exploration and space tourism. Through the development of innovative programming, the company continues the launches of commercial passengers to the International Space Station and now also offers a circumlunar mission and future suborbital spaceflights.
