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Explore & Adventure! SpaceX Will Fly Four Civilians To Space This Year

The good folks over at SpaceX are changing everything about space travel and interstellar exploration. Today they are back in the news, confirming that four individuals will get a chance to visit space this year. Those four individuals will board the SpaceX Crew Dragon craft for a visit to the International Space Station. The mission, Inspiration4, is scheduled for later this year, launching from the Kennedy Space Center while being hailed as the “world’s first all-civilian mission.”

The aim of the mission is to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Shift4 Payments’ CEO and founder, Jared Isaacman, is leading the expedition, donating two of the three remaining seats to members of the public. Isaccman did confirm that one of the seats is “reserved for a St. Jude ambassador with direct ties to the mission.” The remaining two seats will be chosen via an online competition between February 1 and 28. The third seat is expected to open for a lucky contestant who has donated to St. Jude.

However, the fourth is for a new or existing customer of Isaacman’s Shift4Shop e-commerce platform. SpaceX added that the seats will go “to crew members who will be selected to represent the mission pillars of leadership, hope, generosity, and prosperity.” Elon Musk stated that the mission’s length of time is entirely up to Isaacman. Musk stated: “If you decide later you want to do a different mission, you totally can. You get to go where you want to go. But I think we’re nominally assuming it’s two to four days, but if you want to go longer, that’s fine too.”

SpaceX will use the Crew Dragon spacecraft, Resilience. Head over to SpaceX to find out more about this. In the meantime, keep it locked with The Culture Curators for more from the intersection of lifestyle and tech coming soon.  

Written by Jesse James

Author, Audiophile, Style connoisseur, & Sneakerhead. Passionate for life and happiness!

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