Hayley Arceneaux is a physician assistant who works with children with cancer at St. Isaacman is bringing with him three people who, not long ago, were complete strangers to him and one another. Read: Jeff Bezos has picked an unusual space crew Yes, Isaacman is a billionaire who made his money from a payment-processing company, but he’s a normal billionaire and relatively unknown, unlike Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder, or Jeff Bezos, who recently launched to the edge of space on his own rocket. But this event is quite different, in large part because of the crew. This mission, known as Inspiration4, might seem like a continuation of the space-tourism antics of the past several months. Isaacman won’t say how much the trip cost, only that it came in under $200 million. This flight, chartered by 38-year-old billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman for himself and three others, will be SpaceX’s first attempt to fly private passengers into orbit and back. The purpose of the trip is to give this crew a new perspective on the cosmos, and our place in it-so the view had better be good. All four passengers are private citizens taking a wild ride into space just to spend three days orbiting Earth. But SpaceX’s newest crew, scheduled to launch this week, doesn’t need such tools. On previous flights, the same spot was reserved for docking hardware so that the capsule could join up with the International Space Station. It juts out from the small spacecraft like a half-formed soap bubble, still attached to a plastic wand, offering an unimpeded view of the Earth below and the stars beyond. The glass window on SpaceX’s Dragon capsule is a new feature.
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