Watch the liftoff of the historic SpaceX 1:34 mission
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Inspiration4 —the first orbital flight manned entirely by tourists— took off successfully from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County, Florida.
The three-day trip aboard a SpaceX spacecraft would be the beginning of a new era of space travel for civilians.
Inspiration4: SpaceX takes four civilians into space on a three-day trip
The Inspiration4 mission crew will orbit planet Earth every 90 minutes along a custom flight path.
After three days and after reaching a maximum height of 540 kilometers above the Earth, Dragon will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere to make a water landing off the coast of Florida.
The Inspiration4 mission will make use of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, the vehicle designed to transport NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), which made its first manned flights last year.
This is the crew:
Credit: Inspiration4 / John Kraus
Jared Isaacman
, 38, is the billionaire founder of the payment processing company Shift4, who is also personally funding this entire mission.
Hayley Arceneaux
, a 29-year-old cancer survivor who now works as a medical assistant at St. Jude, the hospital where she was treated, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Arceneaux is the first person with a prosthetic body part (she has a partial prosthetic femur) to go into space and will be the medical director for the flight.
St. Jude selected Arceneaux for this mission at Isaacman's request, according to a Netflix documentary, and, at the time, said she was so unfamiliar with space travel that she asked if she would travel to the moon, not knowing that humans don't. have set foot on the moon in 50 years.
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Sian Proctor
, 51, a geologist and educator who was selected to fill a position in this mission through a social media post highlighting her space-related artwork and entrepreneurial spirit.
She will be the fourth black woman in the United States to travel to orbit.
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Chris Sembroski
, a 42-year-old Seattle-based Lockheed Martin employee and former advisor to the famous Alabama Space Camp.
He won his seat through a raffle in which he entered by donating to St. Jude Children's Hospital, although he was not the official winner.
His friend grabbed the seat and, after deciding not to go, transferred it to him.
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