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Name the first tourist in space!" Nineteen-year-old Juan Pablo Nigita, from Argentina, did--identifying U.S. businessman Dennis Tito. Nigita's prize from his Internet provider: a trip to... you guessed it. But he's only going as far as the stratosphere--no space stations. PERI caught up with him as he prepared to take off later this month in a Russian spy plane for a three-hour whirl 15 miles above the Earth:
Did you dream of this day?
Not really. I just entered the competition.
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