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A billionaire has floated out into space on a SpaceX mission. The crew will now prepare to come back down and splash into the ocean, before being picked up by a SpaceX craft.
Jared Isaacman is the billionaire bankrolling the mission and serving as its commander. This isn't the 41-year-old's first rodeo. In 2021, he funded and flew on the first-ever all-civilian ...
After several delays, a SpaceX rocket carrying billionaire Jared Isaacman and others blasted off on a mission that will feature the first space walk by private citizens.
Polaris Dawn was a private crewed spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman, the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program.Launched 10 September 2024 as the 14th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, Isaacman and his crew of three — Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon — flew in an elliptic orbit that took them 1,400 kilometers ...
Netflix had a live webcast of the launch of Inspiration4 on its YouTube channel which was hosted from New York by Soledad O'Brien and Karamo Brown. They were joined by astronaut Leland D. Melvin to provide the viewpoint from a professional astronaut. Jeffrey Kluger, Catherine Coleman and Ron Garan were in Florida to provide impressions from KSC ...
Richard Branson's Virgin Group (through Virgin Galactic and the now cancelled Virgin Orbit), which seeks to dominate space tourism, low-cost small orbital launch vehicles, and intercontinental sub-orbital spaceflight. [5] [3] [1] Elon Musk's SpaceX, which seeks to colonize Mars as well as provide satellite-based internet through its Starlink ...
Today, Shift4 processes over $260 billion annually and serves over 200,000 customers, according to its website. Isaacman has a wife and two kids. Isaacman lives with his wife and two daughters in ...
Billionaire Spaceflight Launch Date Arrival Date Notes Dennis Tito: Space Adventures / MirCorp ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32/TM-31) 28 April 2001: 6 May 2001: First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station [3] [1] [4] Mark Shuttleworth: Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33) 25 April 2002: 2 May ...