Among the first passengers should be billionaire Jared Isaacman, who bought the flight not only for himself, but also for three other space tourists. “I wish we lived in a world that would be here in 50 or 100 years, with people jumping on a rocket like the Jetsons and families bouncing on the moon with their children in spacesuits,” explains Isaacman.
According to him, the mission should also include a voluntary collection for the St. Petersburg Children’s Hospital. Jude’s in Tennessee. “If we push the boundaries in space, we have a duty to push them here on Earth,” Isaacman said.
An important milestone
Musk sees the mission as a key milestone that will help open the way to space for almost anyone in the world. “So far, similar flights are extremely expensive. But thanks to missions like this, their costs will gradually decrease, “he claims.
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Isaacman should be the crew commander, which means that in the event of an emergency, it will be he who will take charge of the fully automated ship. He is reportedly ready for it. He passed pilot tests and in 2009 even set a speed record when orbiting the Earth.
Czech footprint
A year later, he founded the Black Diamond Jet team, which competed in aerobatic flying and used L-39 aircraft from the workshop of the Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody. He later founded the company Draken International, which operates the largest privately owned squadron of former military aircraft in the world and its fleet includes 21 Czech L-159 aircraft. Future American military pilots train in them. “If I had to choose my only favorite aircraft, it would be the L-159,” he said in 2019. in an interview with Aero-space.
Isaacmann became rich in a completely different field. His assets come mainly from the Ship4 Payments payment platform, which he co-founded in 2005. He left the management of the company, then called the United Bank Card, after ten years. At that time, however, it already generated sales of $ 300 million. In terms of today’s crowns, it is about 6.5 billion.
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Who will fly next
Other crew members are not yet known. However, Isaacman has already revealed that a hitherto unknown nurse from the already mentioned hospital will fly into space with him, who will serve as the ambassador of the voluntary collection.
A third crew member should also be selected within the collection. Every American adult who donates money to the hospital in February will be entered into a draw for this VIP ticket to space. The fourth place in the spaceship will then go to one of the entrepreneurs who use Isaacman’s platform Shift4 Payments.
Isaacman, who claims to have been interested in space in kindergarten, is preparing to take the crew on an expedition to the mountains, in addition to training for the mission. There he wants to recall his previous experience of camping in freezing winter conditions. “Before the start, we all need to get to know each other really well,” the businessman explained.
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The Crew Dragon spacecraft has completed one complete manned mission and is now on the International Space Station with the other crew, where it will remain until June.
Thanks to Crew, Americans can take off to the space station from their own soil, nine years after their space shuttle program ended. Since then, the Americans have had to use the services of Russian ships and fly into space from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. According to the AP, the Americans had to pay the Russians $ 90 million for one place on board, ie over two billion crowns.
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