SpaceX Launches First All "Tourist" Crew Including Former St. Jude Patient
SpaceX's Inspiration4, the first-ever orbital flight crewed entirely by tourists, lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center just after 8 pm Wednesday night.
The passenger list includes 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, who financed the entire trip, Sian Proctor, a geologist and community college teacher with a doctorate, and Chris Sembroski, a Lockheed Martin employee that won his seat in a raffle and someone very special, Hayley Arceneaux, a childhood cancer survivor, and St. Jude physician assistant.
Hayley was ten-years-old when she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer. Not only is Hayley the first person to travel to space that had childhood cancer, she is the first person to be in space with a prosthesis.
The four will spend the next three days in orbit 350 miles above Earth in the 13-foot-wide Crew Dragon capsule. It will touchdown sometime on Saturday in Florida.
This mission has raised $2 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital! If you would like to donate to the cause as well, you can with the Y'd Awake Morning Show's St. Jude fundraiser.
