SpaceX plans to send its first space tourism mission in late 2021

“SpaceX” intends to send its first tourist mission to space in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the Space Industries Corporation, owned by billionaire Elon Musk.

This mission, dubbed “Inspiration 4”, will take place thanks to the “SpaceX” “Falcon 9” missile, which was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The mission will include Jared Aysachman, founder and chairman of Shift4 Payments, the group’s first space tourist.

Issacman will finance the trip of three other people with him via the “Dragon” capsule, and they will be “members of the public whose identities will be announced in the coming weeks,” the statement said.

A special website has been created to allow applications to work for these seats. There are two categories of seats: the first is the “generosity” seats, which can be obtained through a donation to the Saint Jude Foundation, which cares for sick children, and the second is the “Prosperity” seats, which can be obtained. be obtained by people sharing their own records on the initiative.

The contest is open to residents of the United States over the age of eighteen. The four people, including Jared Isaacman, will undergo “SpaceX Commercial Astronaut Training”.

The company said the mission will last for several days and that space tourists will circle Earth’s orbit once every 90 minutes.

After the mission, the mission enters the atmospheric ocean before landing off Florida.

And in November 2020, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule successfully put four astronauts into orbit, before they joined the International Space Station.

And the agency “NASA” “SpaceX” and “Boeing” after ending its space shuttle program in 2011 after failing to achieve the goal of making flights to space safe and cheaper.

The US space agency plans to spend more than $ 8 billion by 2024 on its commercial space flight program.