SpaceX aimed to blast a billionaire into orbit Wednesday night with his two contest winners and a health care worker who survived childhood cancer.
September 15,2021 SpaceX aimed to blast a billionaire into orbit Wednesday night with his two contest winners and a health care worker who survived childhood cancer. It’s the first chartered passenger flight for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a big step in space tourism by a private company. „It blows me away, honestly,“ SpaceX director Benji Reed said on the eve of launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. „It gives me goose bumps even right now to talk about it.“ The Pennsylvania entrepreneur who is picking up the tab—Jared Isaacman—won’t say how much he paid. He and his fellow passengers will spend three days orbiting Earth at an unusually high altitude of 357 miles (575 kilometers)—100 miles (160 kilometers) higher than the International Space Station—before splashing down off the Florida coast this weekend. In July, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos launched aboard their own rockets to spur ticket sales.
