$244 million donor to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 41 year old self made billionaire philanthropist and Lifestyles Magazine/Meaningful Influence cover subject Jared Isaacman returns to space

Pilot and philanthropist Jared Isaacman made history as the leader of the Polaris Dawn space mission.

Leaving from Cape Canaveral, Florida, he is part of a four-person crew attempting to go further from planet Earth than any space-tourist before them in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

He is also poised to become the first private citizen to complete a “spacewalk”.

If the space thrusters do their jobs correctly, Isaacman, 41, will ascend 17 miles beyond where any astronaut who did not continue on to the moon managed.

Isaacman previously self-funded a three-day space trip in 2021 which was estimated to have cost as much as $200 million.