CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — Four people Space X‘s first special flight are rather ordinary, realistic types brought together by chance.
They will circumnavigate the Earth – on their own without a professional escort – at an unusually high altitude for three days before splashing down the Florida coast.
Meet the team that took space tourism to new heights following Wednesday night’s launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center:
JARED ISAACMAN, SPONSORSHIP
Isaacman prospered with payment processing business he started her parents’ basement after leaving high school. he He then went to an aviation university, took to the skies in fighter jets, and founded Draken International to provide military-style training in tactical aircraft. Called Space and Easton, Pennsylvania, entrepreneur, Space X To circle the Earth. The 38-year-old is considering flying at air shows, her other hobby, much more dangerous. “I don’t see myself as a risk taker or a thrill seeker,” she says. Isaacman, whose daughters are 7 and 5 years old, “I try to find what I think are interesting challenges in life, and when I can, I attribute it to a very worthy cause.” this time Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Isaacman committed $100 million Saint Jude and is asking for another $100 million in public donations. To take home the message that the space is for “ordinary people only” Isaacman offered one of the four capsule seats. Saint Jude and held sweepstakes for the other two.
HAYLEY ARCENAUX, NS. JEWISH‘S REP
Now a physician assistant Saint JudeArceneaux was a 10-year-old bone cancer patient at a Memphis, Tennessee hospital. To save his left leg, Saint Jude He replaced the knee and part of the thigh bone and inserted a titanium rod. He is the first person to have a prosthesis in space and the youngest American at 29. She was Saint JudeFugitive selection as the hospital’s representative in space in January. Arceneaux kept up with her fellow passengers in training, even as she clambered up Mount Rainier in Washington through the snow. One compromise: Space X adjusted the capsule seat to relieve knee pain. “I am very excited to open up space travel to so many, so many different kinds of people and people who are not physically perfect,” Arceneaux says. will chat with Saint Jude by removing patients from orbit, reminding them that their dreams can come true too. He was taken to his late father Saint Jude A tie is a valuable property. “I am so grateful for my journey with cancer because it gave me the love of life, the joy of simply living and the confidence to say ‘yes’ to opportunities,” she says. “This is the highest honor of my life.”
CHRIS SEMBROSKI, LOTS WINNER
An Air Force veteran and data engineer for Lockheed Martin in Everett, Washington, Sembroski has always seen himself as a behind-the-scenes space booster and helps educate the public. He launched model rockets in college and worked as a Space Camp consultant. So when he saw the Super Bowl ad announcing the space seat draw in February and donated to enter, he considered it a “crazy fantasy.” He didn’t win, but a college friend did and offered Sembroski his place on the flight. Sembroski says she was more repressed than others when she found out: “It’s just that no words were coming out. Since then, I’ve become much more enthusiastic. After six months of training, 42-year-old Sembroski has “no worries, no worries, maybe a bit of stage fright” when it comes to singing and playing a ukulele in orbit. Saint Jude. His wife, Erin, who is a teacher, is “extremely concerned about this for both of us”. They have two daughters, 3 and 9 years old. Sembroski says that when he returns to Earth, he will reflect on the historical nature of flight and its role in it.
SİAN PROCTOR, JOB WINNER
Proctor applied to NASA three times to become an astronaut. The 51-year-old geologist and community college professor from Tempe, Arizona, actually made it to the finals more than a decade ago. After setting off with NASA, he set his sights on private spaceflight. But as 2021 approached, he thought he was getting old – until he found out Isaacmanspace raffles for her customers. He started creating space-themed artwork when the coronavirus pandemic hit and he turned to Isaacman’s Shift4 company to sell. him pictures. When asked on the eve of the launch, he was nervous, he said him The only worry was that “this moment will never come into my life”. By becoming the fourth Black woman in space after three NASA astronauts, Proctor hopes to inspire other minority women. “As we travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond, we are currently writing the narrative of human spaceflight with a focus on diversity,” says Proctor. “We’re in Starship World and we want to bring everyone with us.” He caught the space bug early: His deceased father worked at NASA’s tracking station in Guam during the Apollo moon landings.
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