Inspiration4

Jared Taylor Isaacman is an American billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut who has served as the 15th administrator of NASA since December 2025. He is the founder of Shift4 Payments, a payment processor, and the founder of Draken International, which provides adversary training to the U.S., British, and other NATO air forces. As of May 2025, his estimated net worth is US$1.4 billion.

Inspiration4 (stylized as Inspirati④n) was a 2021 human spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman. The mission launched the Crew Dragon Resilience on September 16, 2021, at 00:02:56 UTC from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle. It placed the Dragon capsule into a low Earth orbit. The mission ended on September 18, 2021, at 23:06:49 UTC, when Resilience splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.

American private astronaut

African American explorer, scientist, STEM communicator

commercial astronaut aboard Inspiration4, former USAF missileman, data engineer, space enthusiast

American aerospace engineer, astronaut on Polaris Dawn space mission

American aerospace engineer, astronaut on Polaris Dawn space mission

physician and NASA astronaut

American retired Air Force fighter pilot, former vice president at Shift4, and future private astronaut