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It's Happening Tomorrow: The first tourist flight into space kicks off Israel today

2021-09-14T13:07:30.130Z


After a day's postponement due to weather conditions, tomorrow will be the first flight to space that consists of civilians only • The four lucky ones will stay for about 3 days in the most remote place in space that anyone has ever stayed in • Flight price: $ 200 million


Tomorrow, for the first time in human history, a space flight will be launched into space that will consist of civilians only.

This is a flight bought with the money of the American billionaire Jared Isaacman, the owner of Shift4 Payments, a payment processing company, which he founded and in which he serves as CEO.

The four lucky ones, Photo: SpaceX

Isaacman, is an avid civilian and military pilot who in 2009 set a world record for circumnavigating the Earth in an executive jet, with a time of just over 62 hours, about 20 hours less than the previous record.

His love of flying also led him in 2012 to found Draken International, a Florida-based company that trains pilots for the United States Armed Forces.

The current flight into space will be made by Isaacman, through Spice X, in the Dragon capsule, through which they flew astronauts to the International Space Station.

Two more women and another man boarded the flight with Isaacman.

Haley Arkano, 29, who works at Memphis Tennessee Hospital, will become the youngest woman to ever reach space.

The spacecraft that will take off into space tomorrow, SpaceX

Another passenger is 51-year-old Sean Proctor, a community college educator in Tampa, Arizona, and a former geology instructor.

Sian is one of the 200 customers at Isaacman's company that competed for the card.

Another winner is 42-year-old pilot and engineer Chris Sambersky, who participated in the raffle after donating to the St. Jude Medical Foundation.

It is interesting to note that Sambarsky himself did not win the lottery but a friend of his from college days who won, passed the win on to him.

All four will take off at an altitude of 575 kilometers above the Earth, higher than the position of the International Space Station and they will sail for three days about a hundred km above the current location of the Hubble Space Telescope. The four will fly around the Earth for three days when they can photograph From space and will eventually land off the coast of Florida as they depart from the Cape Canaveral Flight Center from the compound that SpaceX leases from NASA.

Jared Isaacman, recently referred to criticism of this type of space flight, which is defined by many as a madman of billionaires and a waste of money and said that his flight would remove the monopoly that exists in the field among the powers and lead to cheaper flights in the future.

He also donated $ 100 million to the St. Jude Medical Foundation and will hold another fundraising event for the foundation, which aims to raise another $ 100 million for it.

The four will also conduct a number of medical scientific experiments for the foundation.

Source: israelhayom

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