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Rocket man: Jared Isaacman is leading the first trip to space without astronauts

JL;DR SUMMARY Jared Isaacman, a self-made billionaire and founder of Shift4 Payments, leads the historic Inspiration4 mission, the first spaceflight with an entirely non-professional astronaut crew. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Elon MuskChabadPhilanthropySpacexJared IsaacmanInspiration4 MissionSpace TourismSt. Jude's Children's Research HospitalShift4 PaymentsNon Professional Astronauts

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Florida, United States
"It will orbit the Earth for three days at an altitude of 335 miles (about 80 miles higher than the orbit of the International Space Station) at a speed of about 17,150 miles per hour or about five miles per second."
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States
"which will be launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida."
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
"He is doing it to raise money for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis, which cares for children with cancer and other diseases at no charge."
Everett, Washington, United States
"The other two seats will go to Christopher Sembroski, 41, of Everett, Wash., a data engineer for Lockheed Martin"
Tempe, Arizona, United States
"and Sian Proctor, 51, a community college professor from Tempe, Ariz."
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
"Shift4 Payments is an Allentown, Pennsylvania-based payment processing company that Isaacman founded in the basement of his parents Far Hills, N.J., home in 1999 after he dropped out of high school at the age of 16."
Far Hills, New Jersey, United States
"Shift4 Payments is an Allentown, Pennsylvania-based payment processing company that Isaacman founded in the basement of his parents Far Hills, N.J., home in 1999 after he dropped out of high school at the age of 16."
Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States
"He decided to use one of his jets to raise money in 2010 for Chabad of Hunterdon County, N.J., which at the time was holding an auction benefiting the organizations scholarship fund."
Japan
"Convinced he could succeed if he simply avoided those stops (Japan and India), Isaacman set out the next year to break the record and he did."
India
"Convinced he could succeed if he simply avoided those stops (Japan and India), Isaacman set out the next year to break the record and he did."
Israel
"It will carry three space tourists including Eytan Stibbe, an investor and former Israeli Air Force pilot on a 10-day journey that will include a 200-hour stay on the International Space Station at a cost of $55 million each."

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