SpaceX Takes Four Civilians Into Orbit on Big Day for Space Tourism

Sep 16, 2021

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Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX made history on Wednesday when it launched a spacecraft into orbit with 4 civilians and no astronauts on board. The special event marks the first journey of its kind.

The trip started from the Kennedy Space Center, where the four amateur passengers boarded the Dragon capsule that was propelled by the recycled Falcon rocket. The fully automated capsule is the same as the one used in previous SpaceX missions, with the exception of the replacement of the top space station docking mechanisms with a large domed window. This will be the highest it has ever been, going to an altitude of 357 miles, just beyond the Hubble Space Telescope.

Onboard is the sponsor of the flight, 38-year-old Jared Isaacman, who made his fortune from his payment processing firm Shift4 Payments. It’s not clear what portion of his $2.4 billion net worth he had to spend on the experience. He took with himself health care worker Hayley Arceneaux, who survived cancer as a child and has since become a physician assistant at ST. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. At 29, she will be the youngest American in space and the first to go with a prosthesis, a titanium rod in her leg. The other two are sweepstake winners Chris Sembroski and Sian Proctor. Sembroski is a 42-year-old data engineer from Everett Washington, and Proctor is a 51-year-old community college teacher in Tempe, Arizona.

The event will also be the third time this year that a billionaire had gone to space after Richard Branson’s trip with Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’s trip with Blue Origin.

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