SpaceX will soon bring first tourists to space | Abroad

The mission has been named Inspiration4. The launch is at the end of this year at the earliest. The trip has been sold to 37-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman. He is the founder of the payment service Shift4. In his spare time he is a fighter jet pilot and mountaineer. Isaacman chooses three civilians to go with him. Their names have not yet been announced. They receive astronaut training, which includes learning how to operate their spacecraft and get used to weightlessness. After launch, they will fly a few circles around Earth, after which their capsule will plunge into the sea in a controlled manner and be picked up again.

With the mission, Musk is ahead of his major competitors. Richard Branson has been involved in space tourism for years. His company Virgin Galactic planned to make the first paid flight to space in 2009, but is still conducting test flights.

SpaceX first brought humans to the space station ISS last year. That was the first time that a company had succeeded. Until then, only the Soviet Union and Russia, the United States and China had managed to put humans into orbit.

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