Billionaire who flew to orbit with SpaceX buys three new missions to space
Jared Isaacman (left) and the rest of the Polaris Dawn crew | Image: Polaris Jared Isaacman, the billionaire who flew to Earth orbit on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule last year, plans to fly with SpaceX again. Today, Isaacman announced that he's purchased three additional upcoming flights with SpaceX, a series of missions called Polaris" that would take him deeper into space on the company's spacecraft.
Isaacman, who made his fortune through his payment processing company Shift4 Payments, made headlines last year when he bankrolled an entire SpaceX Crew Dragon passenger mission in September, dubbed Inspiration4. He filled the three remaining seats on the vehicle with other civilian astronauts, including a childhood cancer survivor, an engineer, and a professor. The quartet all trained and eventually flew to orbit...