Inspiration4 crew (L-R): Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman, Christopher Sembroski, Hayley Arceneaux
SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission patch
SpaceX's launched its Crew Dragon Resilience with the first all-commercial crew, September 16, 2021, on the Inspiration4 mission. SpaceX operated the flight on behalf of the CEO of Shift4 Payments Jared Isaacman, to raise money for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Isaacman bought the flight with its four seats from SpaceX. Two of the seats were given to St. Jude. The hospital selected Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude and a bone cancer survivor to go on the flight.
St. Jude held a raffle for the third flight. Entrants had to be a U.S. citizen and donate between $10 - $10,000. Kyle Hippchen won the raffle but gave the seat to friend, Christopher Sembroski, a US Air Force veteran.
The fourth seat was awarded by a competition that rewarded the best business idea to make use of Shift4's commerce solutions. Entrepreneur Sian Proctor was selected as pilot.
The mission raised more than $243M, far more than the targeted $100M. It lasted almost 3 days, and the crew successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, September 18.
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