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The crew accomplished the first major goal of the flight right off the bat, climbing to an altitude of 870 miles — higher than any piloted spacecraft since the Apollo moon program 60 years ago.
Sian Hayley " Leo " Proctor (28 March 1970, Hagåtña, Guam) is an American commercial astronaut, geology professor, artist, author, and science communicator. She became the first female commercial spaceship pilot on the all-civilian Inspiration4 orbital spaceflight, 15 September 2021. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] As pilot of the Inspiration4's SpaceX Crew ...
Isaacman, who was also behind Inspiration4 – another historic commercial mission in 2021 that marked the first time an all-civilian crew went to space – helped fund the mission along with SpaceX.
A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens splashed down off Florida at 3:36 a.m. ET Sunday, ending a historic mission that included the world’s first all-civilian spacewalk.
With Resilience in orbit, three Dragon spacecraft were simultaneously orbiting Earth, as Endeavour flies the Crew-2 mission, and C208 flies the CRS-23 mission. Inspiration4 was the first crewed orbital spaceflight since STS-125 in 2009 to not visit a space station. [32] Each crew member was assigned an individual call sign for communications ...
Netflix confirmed the production of the documentary series about the first all-civilian orbital mission on its Twitter account on 3 August 2021. Inspiration4's Twitter account added its own commentary to the Netflix announcement the next day, saying: "We can't wait for you to watch "Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission To Space" on @netflix, covering our crew's exciting, out-of-this-world journey". [1]
A New Hampshire resident was part of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew that made the first all-civilian spacewalk Thursday. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Scott "Kidd" Poteet, who lives in Stratham, New ...
Four civilian astronauts blasted off into space on Tuesday, Sept. 10 — launching from Cape Canaveral, Fla., en route, they hope, to fly deeper into the cosmos (870 miles, to be exact) than any ...