The world's first space tourist Dennis Tito waves as he stands on an all-terrain vehicle before boarding the helicopter to Astana, after landing in a remote Kazakh steppe some 300km west from Astana May 6, 2001. Tito and two Russian cosmonauts made a text-book landing on the Kazakh steppe early on Sunday, ending an historic voyage marred by a bitter Russia-U.S. spat.

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