Four private individuals take off into space, this dream came true on Thursday night.
Tesla founder Elon Musk is making history with SpaceX.
Florida / USA - The hearts of many space fans should have beat a little faster last night, because Tesla founder Elon Musk is making history with his US space company SpaceX.
For the first time, four tourists took off independently into space with a rocket.
Tesla founder Elon Musk makes history: SpaceX rocket brings four space tourists into space for the first time
The spectacle took place shortly after 8 p.m. local time, and European fans had to get up around 2 a.m.
The Falcon 9 rocket took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
There is no professional astronaut on board, as the capsule flies largely automatically.
It is said to remain in orbit for a full three days.
Around twelve minutes after take-off, the space capsule with the passengers detached itself from the second stage of the rocket's propulsion system.
It is said to be up to 575 kilometers from Earth and thus further than the International Space Station ISS.
After their excursion, the space tourists are supposed to land off the coast of Florida.
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The 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, who chartered the flight, said: "Few have gone before us and many will follow." What exactly Isaacman had to leaf out for the flight is not known, SpaceX also kept a low profile.
With him there are three more passengers on board the mission named "Inspiration4".
His three fellow travelers were selected as part of a competition and accompanied for a Netflix documentary.
After surviving cancer as a child, 29-year-old medical assistant Hayley Arceneaux is the youngest American woman to fly into orbit.
Chris Sembroski, 42, is a US Air Force veteran and Sian Proctor, 51, is a geoscientist who was nearly selected as a NASA astronaut in 2009.
In July, the British billionaire Richard Branson and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos flew into space with their private space companies Virgin Galactic and Blue Orgin. SpaceX has already brought ten astronauts to the ISS space station on behalf of the US space agency NASA, but has not yet transported any space tourists. The current mission "Inspiration4" goes much further than the flights of Virgin Galactic and Blue Orgin, on which the passengers were only a few minutes in space.
