The businessman of 41 years oldis the CEO of Shift4a company dedicated to payment processing and currently employs 600 people.
In it 2021 funded on his own a mission for orbit the Earth and three years later, he returned to space to reaffirm his passion for the flights, where he obtained several world records in this area, including two speed flights around the world in 2008 and 2009.
Isaacman it’s a passionate of flights: pilot with more than 7,000 hours flight records, including ratings on multiple aircraft experimental and ex-militaryIn this area, the billionaire piloted in more than 100 shows flights as part of the Black Diamond Jet Team.
His business career
According to his profile as a businessman on Forbes, he has a fortune of US$1.9 billionIn 2011 he co-founded Draken Internationalthe world’s largest private air force, which just eight years later, Isaacman sold a majority stake to the firm Wall Street Blackstone for a sum multimillionaire.
His star company Shift4which founded the 16 years oldhas more than 200,000 clients from various industries such as hospitality, retail, sports, entertainment and more. Some names of prominent companies are: Disney, Burger King, Marriottamong others.
In 2011 it was case with Monica and they had two daughters named Mila and Liv. His wife was a former classmate from high school whom he met again at an interview years later when he was looking for a summer job.
On the challenges he will face in his next space missionthe pilot told local media: “The only thing that comes close to that is the vacuum chamberand that’s where you feel almost as close as if you were in vacuum conditions or in space (…) That definitely gives you the real sensations of pressure and temperature changes, as well as well as the psychological stressors of being in a very hostile environment”.
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What will the mission with SpaceX be like?
The crew of Polaris Dawnwhere in addition to Isaac, the former US Air Force pilot will be present, Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Anna Menon, as a medical officer, and Sarah Gillisas the flight’s mission specialist, will seek to take full advantage of the performance of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule, to achieve several milestones in space flight.
The mission will be carried out next August 26th and has like main objective to achieve the first private spacewalk in history. For this, astronauts will use the new spacesuits SpaceX EVAIt will also seek to fly higher than any previous Dragon mission to date and achieve the highest Earth orbit ever achieved.
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The mission also proposes Testing laser-based satellite communicationwhich will use optical links between the Dragon spacecraft and Starlink satellites. According to SpaceX, this will revolutionize the “speed and quality of space communications“.
Finally, almost all of them will be carried out 40 Critical Scientific Research Experiments. They aim to advance knowledge of human health both on Earth and during future long-duration space flights. Members will be up to five days in orbit to achieve these goals.
Source: Ambito
