The launch window of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission of billionaire and businessman Elon Musk was open from 2:02 CEST, the rocket launched exactly at 2:02:56 CEST.
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Launch of the Inspiration4 mission on the Falcon 9 rocket
Photo: John Raoux, CTK / AP
As an alternative date, if it didn’t work out now, it was determined the very next day – Friday, September 17 at 2:05 CEST.
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NO COMMENT: Space tourists, two men and two women, are heading into space.
Video: SpaceX, Reuters
The entire crew set out into orbit, which they reached ten minutes after takeoff, for the first time. It consists of two men – Jared Isaacman, Christopher Sembroski – and two women – Sian Proctor and Hayley Arceneaux.
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A beautiful view of the Earth from an outside camera on the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. Apart from our planet, there is also a dome for the crew. pic.twitter.com/IKzVE4qIu5
– Michal Vaclavik (@Kosmo_Michal) September 16, 2021
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The launch of the spaceship was paid for by billionaire Isaacman, who is also the imaginary commander of this space flight. The flight of a completely civilian crew is made possible by the fact that it is fully automated. If necessary, the control center from Earth can intervene.
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It orbits the earth once every 96 minutes
The flight will take approximately three days, which the crew will spend in orbit around the Earth in a microgravity environment at an altitude of about 585 kilometers above the Earth’s surface (it got there three hours after takeoff), so it whizzes even higher than the orbit of the ISS. It is even higher than the Hubble Telescope, according to Reuters.
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Launch of the Inspiration4 mission into orbit.
Photo: Steve Nesius, Reuters
Once in Earth’s orbit, the vessel began orbiting our planet once every 96 minutes at 27,360 km / h. Crew Dragon Resilience has a special viewing dome made of acrylic.
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After a three-day mission in orbit, the Crew Dragon cabin is scheduled to land on Sunday, September 19, around one o’clock in the morning, in the Atlantic Ocean. However, for example, the weather may change.
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In any case, the already used first stage of the Falcon rocket successfully landed on the Just Read the Instructions floating platform in the Atlantic, 544 km from the take-off site, after launch, so that it could be used again in the future.
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Falcon 9’s first stage booster has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship!
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 16, 2021
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“The Inspiration4 mission is the first independent manned space flight not heading for a space station since May 2009, when the STS-125 mission of the space shuttle Atlantis took place for the last service visit of the Hubble Space Telescope,” cosmonautics specialist Michal Václavík from the Czech Space Agency reminded on Twitter. and the Prague CTU.
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Money for a children’s hospital
As explained by Milan Halousek from the Czech Space Office and the Czech Astronomical Society for the News, the mission aims to inspire the whole world and raise a total of $ 200 million (about 4.29 billion crowns) for the children’s research hospital St. Jude in Memphis, Tennessee. Isaacman paid half the amount himself. As such, the mission is also focused on medical research into the effects of living in space on the human body.
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Jared Isaacman (38)
- American billionaire (USD 2 billion; CZK 42.9 billion), businessman and pilot (6,000 flying hours).
- He provided two places in the boat for the money that will be donated to the Children’s Hospital of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Hayley Arceneauxová (29)
- A former patient with bone cancer, now an assistant doctor at St. Jude, she’s the youngest American in the universe.
- At the age of 10, she suffered from cancer of the femur of the left leg, hospitalized at St. Jude for the treatment of cancer in pediatric patients. Today, he works in this hospital and helps other pediatric patients in difficult life.
- He is the first disabled person (titanium joint prosthesis of the left knee) to fly into space.
Sian Proctorová (51)
- University professor of geology and planetary sciences. The finalist in NASA’s 2009 astronaut selection and two other selections failed.
- She has already participated in several simulated space missions, selected for the Insp4 crew in a reality TV show.
Christopher Sembroski (42)
- IT engineer, aviation veteran, Lockheed Martin employee.
- He participated in the raffle in an attempt to raise $ 200 million for the hospital. He donated $ 50 himself. He got the opportunity to fly on this mission by giving a chair in the Crew Dragon to his classmate from the university, who was originally drawn.
According to Halousek, the training of the selected crew included, among other things, a stay in the mountains, in the snow, with accommodation in a tent smaller than the inner space of the Crew Dragon, to check the crew’s reactions to stressful situations and to cope with overload up to 4G.
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Musk neletí
SpaceX boss Elon Musk himself is not taking the road with them, and unlike his competitors Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin) and Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), he does not look at the border between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space – or beyond.
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The other two billionaires, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, headed into space as early as July. But although Branson and Bezos also sent private individuals into space, it was not in orbit – it was only a so-called suborbital flight lasting several minutes. Now, however, it will be a three-day stay in orbit.
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