What Money Can Buy? A Trip to Space!

Anousheh Ansari of Iran, according to Guinness World Records, became the first female space tourist on September 2006 when the Soyuz TMA-9 capsule blasted off for a 10 day visit to the International Space Station. Businesswoman Ansari has had a lifelong fascination with space and is thought to have paid $20 million for the experience.

Here's Ansari's space travel dream as she shares on her blog...

The Rich List According to Guinness

Here's an interesting rich list compiled by Guinness: World Records

• US oil baron John D. Rockefeller was the richest person ever, with an estimated wealth of $900 million in 1913, equivalent to $189.6 billion today.

• William H. Gates III (USA), Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation, is the richest living person according to Forbes magazine, which estimated his wealth at $50.1 billion in March 2005.

• According to Forbes, the richest woman is Liliane Bettencourt (France), heiress to the Loreal cosmetics fortune, who in 2005 had an estimated net worth of $16 billion.

• The richest monarch in the world, as of 2005, is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, with an estimated personal wealth of $20 billion.

• The youngest non-inherited millionaire was the American child film actor Jackie Coogan (1914-1984). In 1923-24, he was earning $22,000 per week and retained approximately 60% of his film'a profits. He was a millionaire in his own right by the age of 13.