Inspiration4

SpaceX is planning its highest Dragon flight yet with a private crew

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By Leah Crane Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis Polaris Program SpaceX has announced a new project aiming to take its Dragon spacecraft higher than ever before. The first flight of this programme, called Polaris Dawn, is scheduled for the end of 2022. Jared Isaacman, the billionaire businessman who sponsored and flew … Read more

Inspiration4: The first all-civilian spaceflight

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The flight, dubbed “Inspiration4,” was a privately chartered spaceflight by Billionaire Jared Isaacman, which launched on Sept. 15, 2021. It becoming the first crewed orbital mission with no professional astronauts on board.  named to commemorate the four-person crew and their associated “pillars” of support for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee: leadership, hope, … Read more

SpaceX’s all-civilian Inspiration4 astronaut crew flew a meteorite back to space (briefly)

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After spending 50,000 years on Earth, a meteorite got the chance to visit space again for almost three days, during the all-civilian Inspiration4 mission in September. Pilot Sian Proctor shared a video on Twitter Friday (Dec. 10) showing a fragment of the immense Canyon Diablo space rock that slammed into northern Arizona, forming Barringer Crater (better … Read more