SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission may sound familiar, as another billionaire-backed space launch, but it's going where neither Richard Branson nor Jeff Bezos could—into orbit.
is just days away from sending its first all-civilian crew on a three-day mission around the Earth multiple times.
Commanding the mission is 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, an experienced pilot. He founded a payment process company called Shift4 Payments and purchased all four seats on the flight for roughly $200 million. Arceneaux is a bone cancer survivor who was treated at St. Jude's as a child and now works there as a physician assistant. She will be the youngest American to go to space as well as the first person with a prosthesis.The Inspiration4 crew,Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux pose for a photo, July 1, 2021.Proctor said she has dreamed of going to space since she was a child.
They will launch from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida -- the same launch pad that Apollo 11 blasted off from -- sending man to the moon for the first time.SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A less that 24 hours before it is scheduled to launch for its Crew-2 mission, at NASAs Kennedy Space Center, Fla., April 22, 2021.
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