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Not 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 p
by adventured 6y ago
Not 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.