before splashing down in the atlantic ocean. on board, a 29-year-old pediatric cancer survivor and physician s assistant at st. jude s. and there is also dr. proctor who applied to be an astronaut back in 2009, came this close, didn t quite make the cut. she was devastated. and now she gets to achieve her life long dream. and also chris sembroski who entered the sweepstakes and his friend got the golden ticket but gave it to him. and finally the commander jared isaacman, entrepreneur, a pilot, and he is really the brainchild for this mission. he went to spacex back in october about something totally different, mentioned in a passing comment hey, if you ever want to send me in sparks i d be game. and now here he is in orbit less than a year later. i wouldn t say pressure because pressure would mean like i m nervous about the outcome here. i think responsibility is really
and so scion, and if they needed to, it would be where they understood the controls to be and how you use the touch screen to do certain thing, and if needed in an emergency. i am guessing. so they have a couple of the contingencies in place, and so this crew as i understand it, they are scheduled to perform a couple of series of space flights, and what could we glean from their experiments. well, my guess is that they are doing, and i hate to say my guess, but my guess is i am not involved with the training or the preparation at all, but because they are flying for st. jude s, and haley arsenault is a physician s assistant, and dr. proctor is a geologist, and they will do some experiments, and i
space flight including a billionaire businessman to who footed the bill, a college professor, an air force veteran and a health care worker at st. jude s research hospital are going up into space. the doctor donated $100 million to st. jude s, helping that fine facility. arthel: well, vaccination rates keep slowly rising across the nation. the cdc says more than 209 million americans have received at least one dose with almost 54% of the total population now fully vaccinated. but the nfl opens its new season with nearly 94% of players vaccinated. the atlanta falcons, tampa bay buccaneers, las vegas raiders, well, they are all fully vaccinated. bucs qb tom brady still says covid is likely to be a factor this season. let s bring in a surgeon from new york, head team physician
i know there s a lot of excitement around this. there s also been a right lot of controversy overflights funded by private billionaires. a lot of people have been too thrilled with the billionaire space race. this one is raising money for sea jude s children research center. as you mention, one of the people is a cancer survivor and i do know st. jude s will have a lot of people watching. the timing of all this is a little tricky. i believe today we find out the exact window and. then they ll be up there for three days. this is it going to be a branson ten minute trip. talk to us about? that no, this is a full on orbital space flight. the fundraising aspect is very novel for this, because it does give she works with st. jude s a very visible platform to raise money. jared has said that he really wants to raise 200 million in
head of st. jude s that this young man, i won t even say which one of my kids. greg: it would be don jr. or eric started selling sketches and giving the money to drug addiction programs. some really primitive sketches before hunter ever sells a painting. mr. trump: if you go, during the presidency to do this. i think the paintings of the least of it. you know that. that s the least of it. greg: the gun violations. mr. trump: we had a much softer justice department. let s say they didn t like doing that. i understand that but i don t want to see a family in trouble. he has got some difficulties which are very serious difficulties in terms of what happened to him with the views, cetera, et cetera. i tell you what, you can t do it republicans. some of the republicans, especially the rhinos. we have some very stupid republicans. don t you sometimes have to