A Montreal businessman will join the first fully private space crew set to launch in just a few days.
Pathy and three others will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and travel to and from the space station in a Dragon spacecraft."It's been a really, at times, very intense year but incredibly stimulating, and the best is yet to come."
Once in space, Pathy will join the likes of other private citizens from Canada who have made a similar journey. They include Cirque du Soleil co-founder Guy Laliberté, the first private citizen from Quebec to go to space a decade ago, and Montreal native William Shatner of Star Trek fame who last year took a ride on a rocketAmong those joining Pathy is fellow entrepreneur Larry Connor, a 72-year-old Ohio native and real estate investor, who will serve as mission pilot.
The three private citizens of the spaceflight are rumoured to have paid as much as US$55 million for a ticket."Back in the 1920s and '30s only very, very wealthy people could fly. Now people get on an airplane to go to a birthday party ... that's going to happen in commercial human spaceflight," he said.
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