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Charitable SpaceX flight includes 2 space fans [Video]

- SpaceX’s first private flight sponsored by Jared Isaacman is now fully booked.
- Along with Jared and a physician assistant from St. Jude Children’s Hospital, two space fans, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski, will be on the flight.
- Both are in awe and very excited for the once-in-a-lifetime flight that will set off later this year!
Seats of the first private SpaceX flight, sponsored by billionaire Jared Isaacman, have been completely filled.
Its two remaining seats were sealed by Sian Proctor, a community college educator in Tempe, Arizona, and Chris Sembroski, a former Air Force missile man from Everett, Washington.
Sian, 51, grabbed the one seat reserved for a customer of Jared’s company. Her space art website called Space2inspire was chosen by an independent panel of judges.
She studied geology and applied thrice to NASA’s astronaut corps. Her late father — a “Hidden Figure” in her mind — worked at NASA’s tracking station for the Apollo moonshots, including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s.
“It was like when Harry Potter found out he was a wizard, a little bit of shock and awe,” Sian told The Associated Press last week. “It’s like, ‘I’m the winner?’”
Meanwhile, Chris, 41, tried his chance to a trip in orbit and joined Jared’s space-flight lottery, whose proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, but luck didn’t work in his favor during the draw earlier this month. But it did later on — Chris’ friend, who actually won the SpaceX seat, declined to fly for personal reasons and gave him the prize!
Just like Sian, anything about space interests Chris. He used to work as a Space Camp counselor in college and volunteered for space advocacy groups.
For three days in orbit, the two space fans will be joined with Jared himself and St. Jude’s physician assistant Hayley Arceneaux, 29, who had bone cancer when she was a child and was treated at the center.
The four gathered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, with Jared sharing details about his Inspiration4 mission.
Jared, who will also serve as spacecraft commander, is paying for SpaceX’s first private flight, but he’s mum about how much he’s paying. The 39-year-old billionaire is donating $100 million to St. Jude, with donations having so far reached $13 million mainly through the lottery offering a chance to fly in space.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule will launch no earlier than mid-September, aiming for an altitude of 335 miles.
Once it’s up there, 75 miles higher than the International Space Station, it would most probably be “an incredible, strange, surreal event,” just as how Chris has described it.
Bon voyage, space warriors!
Source: New York Post

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