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- Inspiration4 is a planned private trip to space for several days in October 2021. One of its four seats is decided by a raffle.
Limited to "U.S. persons" as defined by ITAR.
Jared Isaacman, an American businessman, bought a Crew Dragon trip to space: Inspiration4. Currently planned for October 2021 (which would make it the first private flight of Crew Dragon, and the first dedicated private flight to orbit ever), the flight is expected to last a few days. On board: Isaacman, a person from a hospital he supports, the winner of an entrepreneur competition from a platform he runs, and a random raffle winner. Donations to that hospital increase the chance to win but they are not required to participate, you just have to scroll all the way to the end on the sign-up page: https://www.inspiration4.com/
SpaceX has rapidly increased its Crew Dragon flight plan. The original plan with NASA was one flight per year for Dragon and Starliner each. After Starliner's mishap Dragon got additional flights - two crewed flights (+two uncrewed) in 2020, two more are planned for 2021 (April and September). In addition to that it now has the Inspiration4 flight, Axiom-1 to the ISS (early 2022), a Space Adventures mission (late 2021/early 2022?), and likely two or three more flights for Axiom Space in 2022-2023. All these might face delays of course. There are also three more NASA missions until 2026.
Jared Isaacman, an American businessman, bought a Crew Dragon trip to space: Inspiration4. Currently planned for October 2021 (which would make it the first private flight of Crew Dragon, and the first dedicated private flight to orbit ever), the flight is expected to last a few days. On board: Isaacman, a person from a hospital he supports, the winner of an entrepreneur competition from a platform he runs, and a random raffle winner. Donations to that hospital increase the chance to win but they are not required to participate, you just have to scroll all the way to the end on the sign-up page: https://www.inspiration4.com/
SpaceX has rapidly increased its Crew Dragon flight plan. The original plan with NASA was one flight per year for Dragon and Starliner each. After Starliner's mishap Dragon got additional flights - two crewed flights (+two uncrewed) in 2020, two more are planned for 2021 (April and September). In addition to that it now has the Inspiration4 flight, Axiom-1 to the ISS (early 2022), a Space Adventures mission (late 2021/early 2022?), and likely two or three more flights for Axiom Space in 2022-2023. All these might face delays of course. There are also three more NASA missions until 2026.