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ELON MUSK'S SPACEX SHOOTS CIVILIANS INTO SPACE

Tired of your standard sun vacation or winter sports and want a change? After many years of speculation and promises, by the end of 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk will launch the first citizens into space with his space company SpaceX. In the Crew Dragon, the first space tourists without professional astronauts will dwell among the stars, and you can join them.Text: Patrick Stoffer
Image: SpaceXSpaceX, the Tesla boss's space company, has been working for years to blast ordinary citizens into space. Only four pioneers will experience this memorable moment in history. If you are already sprinting to the travel agency, we regret to disappoint you. 37-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman beat you to it and has already booked all four seats, for an undisclosed amount. Still, you don't have to sit back completely and get another chance from the CEO and founder of the payment service Shift4 Payments. Namely, he is raffling off three tickets to ordinary citizens who may accompany him on this journey through space.

Isaacman wants to donate $200 million to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis with this space trip. For first place, however, you will have to dig deep into your pockets. Isaacman calls on people to donate to St. Jude's and chooses one lucky person among the donors. For the second spot, you must be an entrepreneur using his Shift4Shop platform, and the last spot will be given away to an ambassador for St. Jude's.

Though you're not there just yet. Anyone who wants to accompany Isaacman must be mentally and physically fit and able to pass the astronaut training, where, among other things, you learn to poop weightlessly and pilot a spacecraft. In addition, you must weigh no more than 113 pounds, so stock up on those vegetable juices now.

During this 2-to-4-day journey, you will fly several circles around the Earth and the trip will end with a splash in the sea off the coast of Florida. Still, SpaceX will need to do some tinkering with the Crew Dragon prototype, as it exploded on landing earlier this week.CEO Shift4 Payments: Jared Isaacman
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