Thursday morning is the day: American billionaire Jared Isaacman (41) will become the first private astronaut in history to make a spacewalk. But who is the adventurous businessman? Krone+ reveals what drives the extremely wealthy devil and “anti-musk”.
It is a milestone in the history of space travel: the privately funded space project ‘Polaris Dawn’ reached its maximum altitude of 1,400 kilometers above the Earth on Tuesday. This altitude is the greatest distance that humans have flown to Earth since the last ‘Apollo’ missions to the moon in the early 1970s. For comparison: the ISS space station is ‘only’ at an altitude of about 400 kilometers.
The mission, which will last a total of five days and will be carried out by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, will be led by American entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. He is financing the entire ‘Polaris Dawn’ project, will act as mission commander and, to top it all off, will be the first private astronaut to make a spacewalk.
But who is the man who is making his boyhood dream of becoming an astronaut come true? Adventurer, philanthropist, amateur astronaut, billionaire: 41-year-old Jared Isaacman is a colorful figure that Americans love.
Source: Krone
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