Jared Isaacman

Commander, Inspiration4 & Polaris Dawn

Jared Isaacman is an entrepreneur and pilot who commanded SpaceX's Inspiration4 (2021) — the first all-civilian orbital mission — and Polaris Dawn (2024), on which he performed the first commercial spacewalk. He funded the missions and used them to raise hundreds of millions for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, demonstrating the new era of private human spaceflight that SpaceX made possible.