SpaceX trip for four ordinary citizens without any professional astronauts. Is that a beginning to the space tour!
SpaceX launched for the very first time in history with the four-ordinary citizen without any professional astronauts for a three-day trip around planet Earth.
Inspiration4 will circle the Earth in a higher orbit than the international Space Station, rather than just climbing to space and returning to land within one hour as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin recently did.
Jared Isaacman, a 38-year-old billionaire high-school dropout, pays all the expenses as a fundraising effort for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Isaacman, a qualified pilot of commercial and military jets, made a deal with SpaceX for this project in late 2020 to raise far less than 200 million dollars. He executed his plan with three other crews.
They were Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude, Chris Sembroski, an aerospace worker from Seattle who was selected among the 72,000 entries-based donations to St. Jude, and Sian Proctor, an educator and trained pilot who was a finalist in NASA’s 2009 astronaut class.
SpaceX and Isaacman revealed their mission in a TV ad during the Super Bowl in February to the world to encourage the people to apply for this mission.
Every moment, from the selection of members to their visit to Kennedy Space Center, was captured.
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