Billionaire Jared Isaacman has booked three more SpaceX missions, aiming to break space records and crew the first Starship flight.
Billionaire Jared Isaacman apparently hasn’t gotten enough of space with last year’s Inpiration4 mission. He’s agreed to underwrite three more SpaceX flights – including the first crewed Starship mission – under the banner of the „Polaris Program.“ Isaacman, who funded and commanded the Inspiration4 mission aboard a modified SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule, is set to command the first of three missions dubbed „Polaris Dawn.“ This initial mission is set to include the first-ever private spacewalk by at least two Polaris Dawn crew, according to our colleagues over at Space, and is also aiming to break the record for highest orbital altitude. „On Polaris Dawn, we endeavor to achieve the highest Earth orbit ever flown,“ Isaacman said. Currently, the record for highest Earth orbit ever achieved by humans is held by Gemini 11 astronauts Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon, who orbited Earth at a height of 853 miles/1,373 kilometers in 1966.
