A $1-a-ticket charity fundraising raffle launched by a billionaire aviator is offering the chance to win a hat, a T-shirt — or a seat on the first all-civilian space mission.
SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission will take four people, one of them a former cancer patient, on an orbital odyssey. It will be led and bankrolled by Jared Isaacman, a jet pilot and corporate founder with a $2 billion fortune but no formal training as an astronaut.
“Inspiration4 is the realisation of a lifelong dream and a step towards a future in which anyone can venture out and explore the stars,” said Isaacman, 37, who has donated $100 million to charity in honour of the mission. He aims to raise at least $100 million more by
