By akademiotoelektronik, 12/10/2022

Space tourism: a nurse, a billionaire who is the passengers of the next SpaceX mission?

Spacex's turn to embark on space tourism.A rocket from Elon Musk's Society is to propel four passengers on Wednesday who will spend three days in space, a very ambitious mission which will be the first in history to send in orbit only novice, without any professional astronaut.

Called inspiration4, this mission must conclude a summer marked by the flight of billionaires above the last border: first Richard Branson on July 11, aboard the vessel of Virgin Galactic, then a few days later Jeff Bezos,With his company Blue Origin.

This time, it is a question of going further than the international space station (ISS).""The risk is not from scratch,"" recognizes Jared Isaacman in one of the episodes of the documentary broadcast by Netflix on the mission.""You travel to a ship at 28,000 km/h around the globe.This kind of environment is associated with a certain risk.""

Elon Musk's company has already transported no less than ten astronauts to the ISS on behalf of NASA.But they will be the first private passengers to climb the dragon capsule, launched by the Falcon 9 rocket.Takeoff is scheduled for Wednesday from 8:00 p.m. on the American east coast (midnight GMT).Another launching opportunity is planned on Thursday if the weather conditions impose it.Passengers will take off from the legendary 39a launch area at the NASA Kennedy Center in Florida, from where the Apollo missions to the Moon took off.A billionaire, Jared Isaacman, is at the origin of the project.It was he who chartered the mission, at his expense, inviting three anonymous to join him, via a rather original selection process.Each seat has been allocated to represent a value.

Jared Isaacman, billionaire pilot

This 38 -year -old American is the CEO of the company Shift4 Payments, which offers shops or restaurants a bank card processing service.He created it when he was 16 years old, from the basement of the family home.

Following piloting, he holds a world tower record in jet and is qualified to fly on military devices.In 2012, he founded a company providing training in training for American air force pilots, Draken International.

Married and father of two daughters, he has always been passionate about spatial exploration.In 2008, he attended takeoff, aboard a Russian rocket in Kazakhstan, of one of the first private tourists to go to the international space station, Richard Garriott.It was after this experience that he contacts SpaceX. Son siège représente le ""leadership"".

Hayley Arceneaux, survivor of cancer

Originally from Louisiana, the young woman is survived by pediatric cancer.She was treated in her childhood at St Jude Hospital in Memphis (Tennessee), for which Jared Isaacman organized a fundraising.

She works there today as a medical assistant.At 29, she will be the youngest American to be sent in orbit around the earth, and the first person with a prosthesis to go to space.She will be the medical manager of the mission.Its seat represents hope.

Sian Proctor, professor and candidate astronaut

At 51, Sian Proctor was professor of earth sciences for 20 years.Born in Guam, her father worked in NASA during the Apollo missions.

She participated in an experience in Hawaii simulating life on Mars, and twice applied to NASA to become Astronaut.In 2009, she arrived among the finalists (a few dozen out of more than 3.500 candidates at the start).She will only be the fourth African-American woman to go to space.

She will be the mission pilot, assisting the commander.She won her headquarters, which represents prosperity, by creating an online sales site in connection with space, as part of a competition of entrepreneurs organized by the company of Jared Isaacman.

Chris Simeroski, former Air Force

At 42, this former American air force formerly served in Iraq.He now works in the aeronautical industry, for Lockheed Martin, in the state of Washington (northwest of the United States).

He was selected after making a donation as part of the fundraising for the St Jude Hospital.Its seat represents generosity.Its role will be in particular to help the management of cargo on board, and communications with the land.