Arkansas Civil Air Patrol issued the following announcement on July 22.

Ask her what she’s doing this summer, and Maj. Sian Proctor will tell you she’s “learning to fly a Dragon to space.”

Proctor, a member of the Arizona Wing’s Sky Harbor Composite Squadron, will be the mission pilot on the privately funded Inspiration4 flight aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. She is an active contributor to the Arizona Wing Aerospace Education team, a professor at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, a geoscientist, an analog astronaut and a space artist and poet. Proctor was selected recently as a member of the Explorers Club 50: Fifty People Changing the World the World Needs to Know About.

The commander of the Inspiration4 flight is Jared Isaacman, a pilot and billionaire businessman who’s paying an undisclosed amount for the mission, designed to raise awareness and funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Proctor won a spot on the crew in a competition for small businesses that are customers of Isaacman’s company, through her space art website, Space2Inspire.

Original source can be found here.

Source: Arkansas Civil Air Patrol