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SpaceX plans to launch the world s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit before the end of this year and you can snag a seat.
Shift4 Payments founder and CEO Jared Isaacman financed the Inspiration4 mission and will pilot the autonomous Crew Dragon spacecraft. But the 37-year-old entrepreneur isn t going alone. He is donating the remaining three spots to members of the general public in the name of charity.
In collaboration with St. Jude Children s Research Hospital (which opened the same year an American orbited Earth for the first time), Mission Commander Isaacman will raffle off one seat to a lucky US citizen who donates at least $10 to the hospital. Isaacman himself ponied up $100 million to the cause. Another chair will be filled by a St. Jude ambassador, according to Ars Technica, while the final seat goes to the winner of an entrepreneurial competition, led by Shift4 Payments.