Inspiration4 will launch from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Inspiration4 crewmembers in front of the Falcon 9 rocket they will ride to space. Without any need for a docking port on the spacecraft, SpaceX replaced that structure with a dome window that will provide the crew with breathtaking views of Earth. That's a different itinerary than the capsule's previous journey, when it ferried astronauts to the orbiting laboratory. The crew will not be going to the International Space Station, but will instead free-fly around Earth. The mission can launch any time according to representatives from SpaceX and Inspiration4, but the exact liftoff time will be chosen based predominantly on weather forecasts for both launch and landing sites from the 45th Weather Squadron. Mission personnel will narrow that schedule down to a five-hour window just a few days before launch. Inspiration4 is facing a 24-hour launch window that opens on Sept.
The crew of Inspiration4 in front of a Saturn V rocket on display in Huntsville, Alabama. The more interaction their videos received on Twitter, the more likely they were to make it to the finals. Each contestant had to set up a shop and campaign on Twitter.
Proctor won her seat through a "Shark Tank"-like contest that set up online stores using Isaacman's Shift4 Payments platform as a way to raise money for St. Sembroski was selected after a friend of his (who was technically chosen) decided not to go to space. The other seat was designated to a winner randomly chosen from sweepstakes entries that raised $13 million for the cancer institute. One went to Arceneaux, whom the hospital selected as a frontline worker. Jude, as well as two of the other seats on the Dragon spacecraft. Isaacman donated $100 million directly to St. Isaacman didn't want just another billionaire spaceflight on the books, he wanted the mission to really mean something, so he led a campaign to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer research. The Inspiration4 mission is part of an effort to raise $200 million for St.
The Inspiration4 crewmembers complete a Zero-G training flight. Jude through a fundraising campaign organized as part of Inspiration4. Sembroski won the seat after making a donation to St. He is a former Space Camp counselor and will be a mission specialist for the flight. She thought her dreams of going to space would never come true, until she got the call from Inspiration4.Ĭhris Sembroski is an Air Force veteran who works for aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. Proctor applied to be a NASA astronaut for the class of 2009, but was ultimately not selected. Proctor's father worked for NASA at a tracking station in Guam during the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. Sian Proctor, the mission's pilot, is a geosciences professor at South Mountain Community College in Arizona and a science communicator who has dreamed of going to space since she was a child. She will be the first person to fly in space with a prosthesis, as she has a metal rod in her leg to replace bone removed due to a tumor. Arceneaux, who will serve as the flight's medical officer, is a pediatric bone cancer survivor. Jude Children's Research Hospital, where she was also once a patient. He is joined by Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. The mission's commander is Jared Isaacman, a billionaire who founded Shift4 Payments and purchased the flight.
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