New Crew Members Representing Prosperity and
Generosity Join Hope and Leadership to Complete the Crew
Manifest
Inspiration4, the world’s first all-civilian mission to space,
today announced the final two members of the four-person crew that
will undertake a historic voyage to the stars later this year.
Christopher Sembroski of Everett, WA and Dr. Sian Proctor of Tempe,
AZ will join previously announced crew member Hayley Arceneaux
under the command of Jared Isaacman. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will
launch the crew aboard a Dragon spacecraft later this year.
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Inspiration4 Crew at historic Launchpad
39A / courtesy of SpaceX
The full crew will be introduced publicly today for the first
time from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in
Florida.
Sembroski and Proctor will represent the mission pillars of:
- Prosperity – Dr. Proctor, a 51-year-old entrepreneur,
educator, trained pilot and active voice in the space exploration
community, was awarded her seat by being selected as the top
entrant of an independently judged online business competition that
attracted approximately 200 entries and was conducted by the
eCommerce platform Shift4Shop.
“This opportunity is proof that hard work and
perseverance can pay off in unimaginable ways,” said Dr. Proctor.
“I have always believed that I was preparing for something special,
and that moment has arrived with Inspiration4.”
Proctor will serve as the Mission Pilot and
back up the commander and support related needs throughout the
mission.
- Generosity – Sembroski, a 41-year-old aerospace industry
employee at Lockheed Martin and United States Air Force veteran,
contributed to a special fundraising campaign for St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital® that offered an Inspiration4 seat to
a lucky donor after receiving nearly 72,000 entries. Since it was
first announced in February, the campaign has raised approximately
$113M with new support opportunities to come in the near future,
including chances to sign up at www.stjude.org/Inspiration4 and
fundraise to qualify for Inspiration4-themed incentive items,
special experiences, collectible merchandise, flight-related
campaign information and more.
“Although I’ve been fortunate to have spent
years in the aerospace industry, I never imagined having the
opportunity to reach the stars, especially through something as
simple as supporting St. Jude,” said Sembroski. “I am honored to
occupy the Generosity seat and look forward to using this platform
to encourage everyone to be generous to others in whatever ways
they are able.”
Sembroski will serve as the Mission
Specialist and will help manage payload, science experiments,
communications to mission control and more.
Inspiration4 is completed by the other mission pillars of
Leadership, represented by Isaacman, and Hope, represented by
Arceneaux. Isaacman, the 38-year-old founder and CEO of Shift4
Payments (NYSE: FOUR) and a world record-holding pilot, created the
Inspiration4 mission and donated the three crew seats to inspire
humanity and raise money for the lifesaving mission of St. Jude.
Arceneaux is a 29-year-old physician assistant who works at St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN and joined
Inspiration4 last month. In addition to working at St. Jude, she
was treated as a child for bone cancer at the preeminent care and
research hospital and vowed to return to serve others. Arceneaux
will serve as Medical Officer overseeing medical care and
experiments on the mission.
“Inspiration4’s goal is to inspire humanity to support St. Jude
here on earth while also seeing new possibilities for human
spaceflight,” said Isaacman. “Each of these outstanding crew
members embodies the best of humanity, and I am humbled to lead
them on this historic and purposeful mission and the adventure of a
lifetime.”
All crew members will undergo commercial astronaut training by
SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft – the
very same Dragon spacecraft currently attached to the International
Space Station supporting the Crew-1 mission. Once Dragon returns
the Crew-1 astronauts back home to Earth, the SpaceX team will
inspect and refurbish the spacecraft ahead of the Inspiration4
mission. Crew member training will include a specific focus on
orbital mechanics, operating in microgravity, zero gravity, and
other forms of stress testing. The crew will receive emergency
preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress
exercises, as well as partial- and full-mission simulations.
The mission is being targeted for no earlier than Sept. 15,
2021. It will launch from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s
Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will be carefully monitored at
every step by SpaceX mission control as the spacecraft orbits the
planet every 90 minutes along a customized flight path. The crew is
targeting an approximate 540 km orbit, flying further than any
human since Hubble, for an expected mission duration of
approximately three days. In advance of the mission, the crew is
working closely with SpaceX and multiple organizations to identify
scientific research opportunities they can support while in orbit.
Upon conclusion of the multi-day journey, Dragon will reenter
Earth’s atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of
Florida.
To learn more about Inspiration4 and how to support and follow
this historic journey to space, visit www.Inspiration4.com and
follow the mission on social media on Twitter (@inspiration4x),
Facebook (@inspiration4mission), Instagram (@inspiration4) and
YouTube (@Inspiration4) to receive the latest news on mission
training, preparation and timing.
About Shift4 Payments
Shift4 Payments (NYSE: FOUR) is a leading provider of integrated
payment processing and technology solutions, delivering a complete
omnichannel ecosystem that extends beyond payments to include a
wide range of commerce-enabling services. The company’s
technologies help power over 350 software providers in numerous
industries, including hospitality, retail, F&B, ecommerce,
lodging, gaming, and many more. The newly launched Shift4Shop
platform offers a turnkey ecommerce experience includes a robust
website builder, product and order management, customer marketing
tools and more. With over 7,000 sales partners, the company
securely processed more than $200 billion in payments volume for
over 200,000 businesses in 2019. For more information, visit
shift4.com.
About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the
world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other
life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures.
Saving children.® It is the only National Cancer
Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to
children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the
overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than
80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St.
Jude won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude freely
shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude
means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to
save thousands more children. Families never receive a bill from
St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a
family should worry about is helping their child live. Visit St.
Jude Inspire to discover powerful St. Jude stories of hope,
strength, love and kindness. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting
stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on
Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube
channel.
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