IT House reported on February 14 that billionaire Jared Isaacman, who flew to Earth orbit last year on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, plans to fly again.
Today, Isaacman announced that he has purchased a flight plan for three SpaceX flights, named "Polaris Polaris."
Isaacman runs a payment processing company, Shift4 Payments. Last September, he bought the SpaceX Crew Dragon flight, dubbed Inspiration4, SpaceX's first purely commercial manned mission.
The other three members who flew with Isaacman were ordinary people, including a child cancer survivor, an engineer and a professor. Four people raised money for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital during the three-day trip.
▲ SpaceX's first crew, made up entirely of ordinary people, prepares to travel to space aboard the Manned Dragon spacecraft, Isaacman (first from left)
The first flight, code-named Polaris Dawn, aims to fly ultra-high orbit, will break the Dragon spacecraft's flight altitude record and will attempt a commercial spacewalk for the first time, as well as test the Starlink satellite service.
On this mission, Isaacman will fly with two SpaceX employees, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, former Air Force pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet, and will also raise funds for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
▲ Isaacman (first from left) and other members of the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission
The second flight will also take SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, and the third flight will be the spaceX starship's first manned mission.
IT House learned that SpaceX recently held a starship conference to announce the latest progress of the next generation of "starships" (starships). The spacecraft can send 100 to 150 tons of payload into orbit and possibly carry 200 tons of propellant into orbit.