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>"“When this mission is complete, people are going to look at it and say this was the first time that everyday people could go to space,” Isaacman, 38, told rep
by FpUser 6y ago
>"“When this mission is complete, people are going to look at it and say this was the first time that everyday people could go to space,” Isaacman, 38, told reporters."
Did not Russia earn some cash for flying passengers to the ISS some time ago?
- adventured 6y agoNot so-called everyday people, as Isaacman is describing. Russia flew extremely wealthy people to the ISS a few times, at a cost of something like $20 million per seat (Charles Simonyi for example).
- FpUser 6y ago>"Isaacman, founder and CEO of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments, is forking over an unspecified but presumably exorbitant sum to fellow billionaire and SpaceX owner Elon Musk to fly himself and three others into orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule." These everyday people did not pay either. That wealthy guy just brought them in by paying large sum. So I think this "being first" part is disingenuous / propaganda. I think we might take a while to wait till "ordinary people" could actually afford such trip.
- maccard 6y agoIsaacman [0] is worth $2.7B, is an experienced pilot, and purchased all seats and chose his crew. One is an aerospace professional and ex US-airforce, one is an ex-astronaut candidate with a PhD, and the other is a physician with deep historic ties to a very prominent childrens hospital & the charity that isaacman is a huge donor of. These are all extraordinary people, and not "everyday" people by any means. They are there because a billionare chose them and they're qualified, extraordinary people, (and a billionare is sponsoring them). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Isaacman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Isaacman
- meowster 6y agoIn that case, I wonder how "random" the drawing was for one of those seats. I read the Terms and Conditions, and it seemed on the up-and-up.