Mr. Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, will command the “Inspiration4” mission, which is scheduled to launch in October. One of the other four seats in the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule will go to a front-line healthcare worker from St. Jude.
The worker is a cancer survivor who was treated at St. Jude and is an employee there today, Mr. Isaacman told The New York Times.
The fourth seat will go to an entrepreneur in a “Shark Tank”-like contest run by Shift4, according to the report.
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