No glass dome of this size orbited the blue planet before this mission.
"We spend a lot of time here," chuckles Hayley Arcenaux, dazzled by the sight that opens up to her as soon as she looks up to the huge window.
They are four Americans.
Four tourists to have lived a unique experience.
The first of its kind: to take four average people into the cosmos for three days, without the accompaniment of a professional astronaut.
Six months of training later, the challenge is met.
The space should no longer be accessible to long-trained crews.
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Playing the ukulele, watching movies, drawing… So many travel activities in which Jared, Chris, Sian and Hayley were able to participate, sometimes relearn.
But the “Inspiration4” mission was above all an opportunity to put the human body to the test of weightlessness, to collect data on sleep, blood pressure and heart rate.
The aerospace company sees it as the beginning of a new era.
In January 2022, a SpaceX shuttle will return to space with three new tourists on board.
A ten-day mission under the name of "Ax-1".
