Innovation

Inspiration4: History’s first all-civilian space mission in 20 images

by Robin Bea
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20. The Super Bowl is a strange place for a story about space to start, but that’s where a lot of people first heard of Inspiration4 via a commercial released a few days after the mission’s formal announcement.

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19. Jared Isaacman — a former pilot and CEO of Shift4 Payments — was the first crew member announced for the first-ever all-civilian space crew.

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