Not everyone is lucky enough, or rich enough, to get to travel to space. One of the spots went to Hayley Arceneaux, who works at the hospital. (So far, the company has kept the price a secret.) Billionaire Jared Isaacman will be one of the crew members. Seats on the SpaceX mission that will orbit Earth may cost even more. “We’re paving a way to space for people who are not classically trained astronauts or who never would have been able to experience space before,” she says. But Arceneaux hopes her mission, called Inspiration4, will spark more people to become interested in space exploration. “I never would have had this opportunity before because, until now, astronauts had to be physically perfect,” she says. Now, Arceneaux is looking forward to becoming the first person with a prosthetic limb to travel to space. Jude, where she had part of her left leg replaced by metal rods. But when she was 10, she found out she had bone cancer. She also used to be one of its patients.Īs a kid, Arceneaux dreamed of becoming an astronaut. One of the spots went to Hayley Arceneaux (AR-seh-noh), who works at the hospital. He bought all four seats on the mission and donated two of them to St. (So far, the company has kept the price secret.) Billionaire Jared Isaacman will be one of the crew members. Seats on the three-day SpaceX mission that will orbit Earth may cost even more. They will send a crew on a three-day mission that will orbit Earth. But now, companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Atlantic are competing for customers who will pay to go to space.Īnother billionaire, Elon Musk, plans to take this “space race” into new territory this fall. The government missions were for research and exploration. In the past, most space missions were organized by government agencies, like NASA. Those are spaceflights that companies launch to make money. Those two trips opened a new door to commercial spaceflights. Nine days later, billionaire Jeff Bezos was one of the first passengers that his company Blue Origin sent into space. The plane rocketed to the edge of space, about 53 miles above Earth’s surface. Its crew included billionaire Richard Branson, who founded the company. That's when the company Virgin Galactic launched a space plane. Liftoff! A new era for space travel began on July 11. His company SpaceX is preparing to send a crew on a three-day mission that will orbit Earth. But Branson’s and Bezos’s companies are competing for customers who will pay to fulfill their dreams of going to space.Īnother billionaire, Elon Musk, plans to take this “space race” into new territory this fall. In the past, most space missions have been organized by government agencies, such as NASA, for research or exploration.
The success of those trips opened the door to commercial spaceflights that will bring in big money for those companies. Their spacecraft soared even higher, about 66 miles above Earth. The plane rocketed to the edge of space, about 53 miles above Earth’s surface, before safely returning home.
Liftoff! A new era for space travel began on July 11 with the launch of the Virgin Galactic space plane.
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