SpaceX Just Launched Four Tourists Into Space

Elon Musk’s company Space X has JUST made history, launching four non-professional astronauts into space. 

This is the first orbital mission completely staffed by tourists. 

Inspiration4 is commanded by Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments as well as a pilot and adventurer. Isaacman is joined by Hayley Arceneaux a medical officer a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and cancer survivor, Mission Specialist Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer; as well as Mission Pilot Dr Sian Proctor, entrepreneur, a geoscientist and trained pilot. 

Jared Isaacman says tourism in space is the future. 

“It is the first time that a global super power has sent people up into orbital space and I think that should send a message of all the things to come right?”

You can watch the new astronauts LIVE on their journey on YouTube. 

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