Musk's SpaceX to launch first all-civilian mission with tech CEO
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced to launch its first all-civilian orbital spaceflight in late 2021. The mission to be launched is called 'Inspiration4' and it will be commanded by company's technology entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. Isaacman, is also a trained pilot, and will be joined by three other people.
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The company stated, "Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the three seats alongside him aboard Dragon to individuals from the general public who will be announced in the weeks ahead,"
"The Inspiration4 crew will receive commercial astronaut training by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechanics, operating in microgravity, zero gravity, and other forms of stress testing. They will go through emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full mission simulations," it added.
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Inspiration4, which is expected to launch in the fourth quarter, seeks to raise support for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and is another step towards Musk’s efforts to make human spaceflight more common.
On a conference call with Isaacman, Musk said, “This is an important milestone toward enabling access to space for everyone,”
The mission is planned for "two to four days" and upon its finishing, Dragon, the spacecraft, will re-enter Earth's atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of Florida.
-PTC News
