The Inspiration4 was Jared Isaacman's privately funded trip to Earth's orbit raised lots of money for a children's research hospital.
Inspiration4 was motivated in part by Isaacman's effort to raise more than $200 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a pediatric cancer research hospital that does not charge the families of children for their treatment. Isaacman pledged $100 million toward the cause out of his own pocket.
"I've been very lucky in life; you really don't get to a position that I'm fortunate enough to be in without the ball bouncing your way a couple times," said Isaacman in an interview with."These families [at St. Jude] were dealt horrible hands. They're going through what no one should ever have to go through.
Isaacman, who commanded the mission, donated the remaining three seats of his four-person flight to sponsor St. Jude. The first crewmember to join him was Hayley Arceneaux, 29, a physician assistant at St. Jude in Memphis who, as a child, also received treatment for bone cancer from the same organization. She was chosen to join the crew by St. Jude, andbecame the first person with a prosthetic body part to go to space, as during her treatment she received metal rods to replace parts of bones in her left leg.
Chris Sembroski, 41, is a data engineer and long-time space enthusiast who once worked as a counselor at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. His seat was up for grabs in a fundraiser sweepstakes meant to support St. Jude, but while Sembroski entered the competition, an unnamed friend actually won. The friend then offered the seat to Sembroski, recalling his avid interest in spaceflight and
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