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Jared Isaacman

Private Spaceflight Participants

Jared Isaacman is an American entrepreneur, pilot and private astronaut, founder and chief executive of the payment processing company Shift4 Payments. In September 2021 he commanded and fully funded Inspiration4, the first orbital spaceflight crewed entirely by private citizens with no professional astronauts aboard, flown on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. He later commanded Polaris Dawn in 2024, a privately funded mission that included the first spacewalk performed by a commercial crew and reached the highest Earth orbit flown by a crewed spacecraft since the Apollo program.

Facts
Birth Date
1983-02-11 2
Birth Year
1983 2
Nationality
American 2
Notable Mission
Inspiration4 2
Classification
Astronaut Role
Commander 1
Connections

Associated With

SpaceX, Space Agencies and Companies
Source Jared Isaacman - Wikipedia

Operated By

NASA, Space Agencies and Companies
Source Jared Isaacman - Wikipedia
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Nationality

United States

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Sources
1. Jared Isaacman (Wikipedia)
Isaacman commanded Inspiration4 - the first all-civilian spaceflightView the Source
2. Jared Isaacman - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, birth_date
    1983-02-11
  • Early life
    Isaacman was born on February 11, 1983
  • Lead, sentence 1
    is an American billionaire entrepreneur
  • Lead, paragraph 2
    Isaacman commanded Inspiration4
  • In Group: Space Tourists and Private Astronauts, Lead sentence
    Jared Taylor Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut who has served as the 15th administrator of NASA since December 2025.
  • Operated By: NASA, Article text: agency link
    Jared Taylor Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut who has served as the 15th administrator of NASA since December 2025.
  • Associated With: SpaceX, Article text: associated organization
    Isaacman commanded Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight, using SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience, which launched from Kennedy Space Center on September 16, 2021.
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Wikidata: Jared Isaacman
Wikidata Q6160001, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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