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WP: billionaire Jared Isaacman has booked three more flights into space

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He said that the first flight could take place by the end of 2021

MOSCOW, February 14. /tass/. Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who owns the payment service for restaurants and hotels Shift4 Payments, has booked three additional flights into space on a SpaceX rocket. The billionaire said this in an interview with The Washington Post on Monday.

According to Isaakman, the first flight may take place by the end of this year. The third flight may be the first manned mission of the Starship spacecraft, which is under development by SpaceX. The billionaire did not disclose the details of the cost.

The first flight will be performed by Isaacman himself, who will be the commander, Scott Poteet, a former US Air Force pilot, and two leading SpaceX engineers Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, who help prepare astronauts for flights.

On September 16-19, 2021, on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, for the first time in the history of manned cosmonautics, an orbital flight was performed by a crew consisting only of non-professional astronauts. Four Americans, including two women, participated in the three-day private Inspiration4 mission, which did not involve docking with the International Space Station (ISS). The flight was performed by Isaakman (who was the commander of Crew Dragon), Christopher Sembrosky, an employee of Lockheed Martin Aerospace Corporation, Sian Proctor, a professor of geology, and Hayley Arsenault, a doctor at the Children's Research Hospital from Memphis (Tennessee).

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