The SpaceX capsule was launched by four parachutes into the ocean just before sunset at 1:08 CEST near where their flight began three days earlier. A ready ship then waited for the returnee. World news agencies inform about it. It is the first completely amateur crew to fly around the Earth without a professional astronaut.
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The crew of the Inspiration4 mission took off into space on the Crew Dragon on Wednesday and moved at a speed of 27,360 kilometers per hour. It was able to orbit the planet every 90 minutes. It reached a height of 580 kilometers above the Earth, so it was even higher than the International Space Station (ISS). It was controlled from the deck by a control computer system, followed by the SpaceX team from Earth.
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The expedition was led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, who paid an unspecified amount of millions of dollars for it. Daily However, the Times estimates it could have paid up to $ 200 million. He took three guests with him. A 29-year-old doctor’s assistant at St. Petersburg Hospital flew with him. Jude Hayley Arceneaux, who fought cancer herself in this facility as a child. She became the youngest American in space and the first man with a prosthesis in Earth’s orbit. The crew was joined by forty-two-year-old data engineer Chris Sembroski and 51-year-old teacher Sian Proctor, who is the first black spacecraft pilot. The whole team had to undergo six months of training before the trip. All four were also monitored by a team of experts to gather data on the possible impact of space travel on non-professional astronauts.
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“Your mission has shown the world that space is for all of us,” said the SpaceX control transmitter. “It was a hell of a ride for us – we’re just getting started,” Isaacman told him, suggesting that more people would look into space this way in the future. This was confirmed by the head of the mission, Todd Ericson. “Welcome to the second space age,” he told a news conference, adding that “space travel will become more accessible to every woman and man.”
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SpaceX has transported human beings into space and back for the third time, writes the British BBC.
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