NETJETS US VOLUME 15 2021

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OWNER’S PROFILE REACHING FOR THE STARS With boundless energy and a savvy tactical approach, John Shoffner is hoping to become one of the fi rst private citizens on the International Space Station—and to be productive while he’s there. // By Josh Sims JOHN SHOFFNER CANNOT FLY an airship. “Gliders, hang gliders, airplanes, seaplanes, warplanes, and jets,” says Shoffner, ticking off those craft he has learned to pilot. “But somehow I missed airships.” One might be tempted to nip in with “spaceship” too, but Shoffner has that covered as well. The businessman, racing driver, and NetJets regular has recently started training with private space company Axiom Space with a view to rocketing to the International Space Station (ISS) on a SpaceX ship in the latter part of next year. “I’ve always been interested in those activities that involve calculated risk, that involve a challenge you have to prepare for, that make you feel uncomfortable, that have an element of danger to them,” says Shoffner, who, driving for his own champion J2-Racing team, once totalled his new Porsche 911 on a corner at Germany’s famed Nürburgring, fl ipping it over and over and yet somehow coming out largely unscathed. “That just showed me what you can go through with good preparation and equipment. In fact, when I woke up in hospital I was ready to race again and did so the following week—though not in that car,” he adds with a laugh. “When [my wife and I] took up racing cars, neither of us had even driven sports cars before. We stopped skydiving because it was starting to get boring. Put it this way: We’re not exactly golf fans.” Unless, perhaps, it’s the kind played by astronaut Alan Shepard on the moon. Then Shoffner might be tempted. Indeed, getting into space will be the fulfi llment of a lifetime’s ambition, even if it’s a counterintuitive adventure to go on, it might seem, for someone who’s also fascinated by the idea of maxing out his lifespan by keeping up with the latest science in nutrition, sleep, and lifestyle. He grew up through the bold ambitions and amazing achievements of the Space Race between the U.S. and Soviet Union, and always had a fascination for equipment with plenty of lights and switches, with rockets and the stars. “I was sure I’d go into space some day—I was just never sure how—so it’s been amazing that the advent of private spacefl ight and the gradual maturing of that market now allows that to be possible,” says Shoffner, who made his money building Dura-Line, a Kentuckybased company that pioneered and patented fi ber-optic cable installation technologies, before retiring in 1996. © AXIOM SPACE 28 NetJets
NEXT STOP: SPACE Shoffner and Peggy Whitson, who will command the flight to the ISS, in Axiom’s zero gravity chamber. NetJets 29
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