During a three-day orbit, the crew will circle the Earth several times at a distance of around 370 miles and at around 22 times the speed of sound.
Mission commander Issacman, 38, is the CEO and founder of Shift4 payments who paid an unspecified sum of money to allow himself and his three crewmates to make the space journey.
The remaining seats go to geosciences professor and science communicator Proctor, 51, and U.S. Air Force veteran and Lockheed Martin aerospace industry data engineer Sembroski, 41.
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