The countdown is on for Inspiration4, the first tourist trip around the Earth organized by SpaceX.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, a reusable Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to drop off, some 400 km from Earth, a Crew Dragon capsule with four tourists on board, for a four-day stay in low orbit.
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With this flight, Elon Musk shows his ambition to be the leader not only in the commercialization of low orbit with the Falcon 9 rocket, the constellations with Starlink, the transport of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) with Crew Dragon.
But also to dominate in space tourism, with tours of the Earth - and of the Moon, with its new Starship rocket from 2023 -, accompanied by stays in modules docked at the ISS, developed by its partner, the American start-up Axiom, created in 2016. A project in which Thales Alenia Space participates as manager
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