Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

[thread] Jared Isaacman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Is

* billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, commercial astronaut
* founder/CEO of payment processor Shift4 Payments
* nominated by Trump to serve as administrator of NASA

#USpol #NASA #JaredIsaacman #Shift4
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #Christofascism
#billionaires #libertarianism #ElonMusk #SpaceX

Jared Isaacman - Wikipedia

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Dec 04, 2024, 21:33 · · · 1 · 0
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump chooses billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA
npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-52158

* Isaacman is a friend of Elon Musk
* online payment company Shift 4 has extensive financial ties to SpaceX
* would oversee $BILLIONS USD in contracts
* strong preference for SpaceX

#USpol #NASA #JaredIsaacman #Shift4
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #Christofascism
#billionaires #capitalism #corporations #libertarianism #ElonMusk #SpaceX

Dec 04, 2024, 21:34 · · · 5 · 0
Chuck Darwin

Polaris Dawn mission blasts off with plans for first commercial spacewalk

Four astronauts have blasted out of the atmosphere as part of a privately funded five-day mission that aims to carry out the first commercial spacewalk.

#Jared #Isaacman, the American billionaire founder of the electronic payment company #Shift4, is bankrolling the #Polaris #Dawn mission and acting as commander of the crew.

It is the second trip Isaacman has charted. In 2021, he flew on the #Inspiration4 mission, the first orbital spaceflight by an #all-#civilian crew, which included a cancer survivor as well as a data engineer who won his seat in a raffle draw.

Isaacman, who has thousands of hours in various aircraft, is joined this time by a retired military fighter pilot and two employees of SpaceX, the Elon Musk-owned company that is operating the mission.

SpaceX’s #Falcon9 rocket launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday morning after several delays.
A previous attempt to launch last month was postponed hours before liftoff after a small helium leak on the launchpad.
It was later pushed back further when the same make of rocket was temporarily grounded by US regulators for checks.

The trip will last about five days and take an oval-shaped orbit that travels as far as 870 miles (1,400km) from Earth’s surface

theguardian.com/science/articl

Polaris Dawn mission blasts off with plans for first commercial spacewalk

Privately funded five-day mission by four astronauts…

www.theguardian.com
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@bart

AFAIK there actually was a SHIFT4 ... you can still buy the battery in the shop.

Yeah, me too .. a 4.5 " screen is roughly my favourite size for a smartphone.

#SHIFT4

de.shiftphones.com/wiki/SHIFT4

SHIFT4 / SHIFT4.2 – SHIFTPHONES Wiki

de.shiftphones.com