SpaceX successfully launched the first space flight with an entire civilian crew for the first time on Wednesday night local time or Thursday morning (16/9/2021).
The Dragon capsule, carried by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, carried two contest winners, a health worker, and the billionaire sponsor of the charity event.
Citing AP News, the mission titled Inspiration4 also marks Elon Musk's SpaceX entry into the space tourism race.
Meanwhile, Jared Isaacman, the billionaire who led the flight, became the third billionaire to go into space following Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin.
Later, the capsule will take three days to circle the Earth at an orbit altitude of 100 miles or 160 kilometers, higher than the International Space Station.
After that, they are scheduled to glide and land off the coast of Florida, United States this weekend.
Civil Crew
Citing the New York Post, along with Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski, and Dr. Sian Proctor.
Arceneaux is a physician's assistant at St. Jude who was also a childhood cancer survivor. This 29-year-old woman will be the first person with a prosthetic body part to go into space.
Sembroski, meanwhile, is an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer. Uniquely, this 42-year-old man actually got a ticket from a friend who canceled his flight, even though he won it.
Finally there is Proctor, a 51-year-old woman who is a college teacher in Tempe, Arizona. He got his ticket by winning a contest on e-commerce platform Shift4Shop Isaacman.
Proctor togel online zaman sekarang is an analog astronaut whose father worked at NASA's tracking station during the Apollo missions.
Wants to Inspire HumanitySpaceX stated that the four crew members will not be responsible for the operations of the spacecraft. However, they continued to receive training for several months since the crew name was announced in March.
"Inspiration 4's goal is to inspire humanity to support St. Jude here on Earth while exploring new possibilities for human spaceflight," Isaacman said last March.
"Each member of this incredible crew embodies the best of humanity, and I humbly lead them on this historic and purposeful mission and adventure of a lifetime."