![](\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/03\/30\/PBRE\/a78bca95-3f3e-49b2-b4f9-2981dc97ef24-Inspiration4_Crew_at_Launch_Site.jpeg\")
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Inspiration 4 crew members Chris Sembroski, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor, and Jared Isaacman are seen at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A. Their three-day, all-civilian mission to low-Earth orbit is targeting no earlier than September. (Photo: SpaceX)<\/span><\/p>\n Proctor will fill the seat nicknamed “Prosperity,” selected based on an entrepreneur’s ability to raise funds for the hospital using Isaacman’s Shift4 Payments platform. Proctor, 51, is an educator and trained pilot who was a finalist in NASA’s 2009 astronaut class. She is a geoscience professor at South Mountain Community College\u00a0in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n Proctor was selected from a pool of about 200 entrepreneurs who applied.<\/p>\n “It’s like opening up the chocolate bar and seeing the golden ticket to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” Proctor told NBC’s Today in a segment aired Tuesday. “This is the example of that for space.”<\/p>\n Sembroski, a 41-year-old who works at Lockheed Martin in Seattle, was selected from nearly 72,000 entries to fill the “Generosity” slot based on donations to the St. Jude’s campaign. He’s a longtime advocate of space and maintained Minuteman III ballistic missiles during his time in the Air Force. He also used to be a space camp counselor at Kennedy Space Center some 20 years ago.<\/p>\n “Although I\u2019ve been fortunate to have spent years in the aerospace industry, I never imagined having the opportunity to reach the stars, especially through something as simple as supporting St. Jude,”\u00a0he said in a statement from Inspiration 4.<\/p>\nLike finding the ‘golden ticket’<\/h2>\n