![]() “You’re in a camper van with some of your closest friends for three days.” Sembroski said during Tuesday’s news conference. “It’s like an extended camping trip,” Mr. Inspiration4’s crew will spend three days aboard. So far, NASA’s missions in Crew Dragon have spent no more than about a day orbiting the planet before docking with the space station. “It’s still a millionaire’s game, but at least you don’t have to be a superpower country,” he said. “With private launches, the number of people who can go to space will continue to increase.” “The thing that has been barring us from going to space is cost,” Dr. As those costs go down, the number of people who are in space will go up, he said. Elliott Bryner, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona. He follows fellow billionaires Richard Branson, the entrepreneur behind the Virgin companies, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, who went this year.īillionaires like them, and the private companies they fund, have made the cost of space travel cheaper, according to Dr. The “Commander & Benefactor” of the Inspiration4 is Jared Isaacman, a high school dropout who became a billionaire founder of a payments processing company. On Friday, the crew returned safely to Earth, according to a state media report. ![]() There is a team of seven aboard the space station at this time.Īnd the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft carried three astronauts who were completing a 90-day stay on China’s space station, which is still under construction. This year, though, the 14 humans in space were on three separate missions. Proctor is also taking a commemorative coin from Guam from the year she was born, which was given to her by her parents. Sembroski is taking two pins that belonged to his mother-in-law’s great-grandmother, and Sian Proctor is taking rings her father and mother wore when they were alive. He said he hopes the items are passed down to future generations of his family. Jared Isaacman, the mission’s commander who is paying for the trip, said he is taking custom dragon pendants he had made for his wife and two daughters, in keeping with the theme of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. She wants to hold the picture in space to give hope to her patients, and other children going through cancer treatment. ![]() Arceneaux is bringing a photo of herself at age 10, when she was going through bone cancer treatment at St. The astronauts are also allowed to bring personal items to space. “We’re going to jam to it on orbit,” Hayley Arceneaux, another crew member, said. The crew is also carrying up a unique digital file, also known as a NFT, of a live performance by the Kings of Leon of its new song, “Time in Disguise.” That will also be auctioned. The auction items are posted at /inspiration4. Tom Cruise also discussed filming aboard the space station with NASA, but there have been no recent updates on that flight. His trip to the space station is being arranged by Space Adventures, a company that arranged eight similar visits for private citizens between 20. Maezawa hopes to embark on in a few years in the giant SpaceX Starship rocket that is currently in development. Their 12-day trip, scheduled to launch in December, is a prelude for a more ambitious around-the-moon trip Mr. So will a Japanese fashion entrepreneur, Yusaku Maezawa, and Yozo Hirano, a production assistant. Peresild will play a surgeon sent to orbit to save the life of a Russian astronaut. The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, and a Russian broadcaster, Channel One, are behind an effort, perhaps as soon as next month, to send Yulia Peresild, an actress, and Klim Shipenko, a filmmaker, to the space station to make the movie “Challenge.” Ms. That’s not the only TV or film project headed to orbit.
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