The Inspiration4 mission was launched tonight, 16/9 at 03:02. The passengers underwent minimal training and the spaceship itself, a Dragon model, will be autonomous and, if necessary, will be controlled from the ground
Update - the landing is expected on the night between Saturday and Sunday at 02:07 Israel time
Update, 16/9/2021, time 03:13
As of now, over six minutes, everything seems fine, the spaceship with the four citizens carried out the entire launch phase successfully. They will spend three days in orbit around the Earth, at an altitude of 575 km.
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SPACEX will launch four tourists into space tonight in a Dragon model spacecraft without a certified astronaut to fly the spacecraft. The four will stay in space for three days. The launch window is scheduled to begin tonight at 20:00 PM Eastern Time - 16:9 AM Israel Time (XNUMX/XNUMX) and will last five hours. The passengers underwent minimal training and the spacecraft itself, a Dragon model, will be autonomous and, if necessary, will be controlled from the ground.
The mission, dubbed Inspiration4, is the world's first civilian manned flight to orbit the Earth, and is expected to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. About three days after liftoff, the Dragon and the Inspiration4 crew will return to Earth and crash land at one of several possible landing sites off the coast of Florida. Each of the passengers paid Elon Musk several tens of millions of dollars.
For the first time in 60 years of manned space flight, the innovation this time passengers will fly in a fully automated Dragon capsule. The same SpaceX capsule that NASA uses to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
SpaceX has already flown ten astronauts to the International Space Station on behalf of NASA, but this will be the first time it will send non-professional astronauts into space. The entire mission will last three days - much longer than the few minutes in zero gravity provided a few weeks ago by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Gef Bezos' Blue Origin.
Jared Isaacman, 38, CEO of e-commerce company Shift4 Payments, an experienced pilot and veteran billionaire rented the capsule from SpaceX to take himself and three other citizens on a fun flight into space. The spacecraft will fly in an elliptical orbit whose peak will be at an altitude of about 575 km, the altitude at which the International Space Station flies and in fact the highest altitude that humans have reached since missions to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
"The risk is not zero," Isaacman said in an episode of a documentary produced by Netflix about the mission. "You ride a rocket at a speed of 28,000 km/h around the earth. There are risks in such an environment."
The four value pillars
The choice of Isaacman's companions, although they are anonymous, was not random. Each member of the team is carefully selected to represent four values.
Haley Arcanio, the youngest of the team, recovered from childhood bone cancer and represents hope. She will become the first disabled person with prosthetic legs to be launched into space. Chris Sambrowski, 42, is a former US Air Force veteran who currently works in the airline industry. It represents the value "generosity". And the third passenger chosen by Isaacman is Dr. Sian Proctor, a 51-year-old earth science professor, who in 2009 missed out on entering the NASA astronaut course. It represents the value "prosperity". Sian will also be the fourth African-American woman to fly in space.
preparation for the task
The team went through months of rigorous training, which included experiencing high G-forces on a centrifuge - a huge arm that spins very quickly - to prepare for the loads they will face on launch. They also completed a high-altitude snowy trek on Mount Rainier in the northwestern United States. They also conducted a weightlessness experiment for a few seconds in a dedicated aircraft.
The study of the human body in space is one of the goals of the mission. The Inspir4 team will conduct scientific research designed to promote human health on Earth and during long-term space flights in the future.
Before and after the flight, the passengers will undergo tests that will help assess the effect of the flight on the bodies of the crew members. Their sleep, heart rate, blood pressure and cognitive abilities will be monitored during their three days on the track.
The second goal is to raise $200 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The mission is part of Jared's ambitious fundraising goal to give hope to all children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
The mission's stated goal is to make space travel more accessible to more people, although it is currently only available to a select few.
"In all of human history, less than 600 people have reached space. We are proud that our flight will help influence everyone who will travel after us", said Isaacman.
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Shits in space
post Scriptum. I'm really looking forward to the days like in the universe "Star Wars!!"
Keenan and Hera fight TIE battleships with a little help from the machine in "Ghost" / Disney Channel Israel
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Nice, finally, I'm waiting for the days that will be like in the "Star Wars" universe, to turn science fiction into real and advanced and realistic and excellent science. I just hope that soon the cost of a flight to outer space will be very much discounted, much less than what is paid for a flight in a plane that has the force of gravity to the earth. Finally, after 5,782 years and 10 days since the entire world and the entire huge infinite universe was created by the Almighty, the King of Kings, God of Israel and the entire world who created the entire world in 6 days, then finally people are sending tourists into space without NASA astronauts or Any other international space organization.
Good luck to everyone and I also wish all the people of Israel the holy and chosen of all other nations:
"Good writing and signature for a happy and sweet new year!!!"
As of today, flying into space is the ultimate status symbol for the Israelis - even though the package is not the popular type in our places, not "all-inclusive" and you don't stop at a duty free shop first, the flight attendants don't sell "Toblerone" chocolate and you can't turn off the faucet in the bathroom.
To "I": It is possible that the question "where will they defecate" is one of the scientific questions they need to answer as part of the experiments they are doing...
Professional astronauts are essential for complex missions. Neil Armstrong saved the Gemini 8 mission, and was also essential to the successful landing of the "Eagle" on the moon in the Apollo 11 mission. The Apollo 13 astronauts would not have survived if they were not highly professional, and it was impossible to carry out all the spacewalks to treat Hubble and the station Space without astronauts who have been trained for this purpose for many years.
But I certainly admire the achievement of SpaceX and the manned Dragon. A long time ago, I suspected that SpaceX would be able to put 10 or more people into orbit and land them safely before Boeing could even launch its first one, and it's really coming true now.
Here Musk breaks another well-known myth that NASA has nurtured for years: the "space pilots" are nothing more than passengers "upgraded" to Superman's Mythos in Star Wars. It's true that they were pilots, it's true that they were trained in creative ways that look good on TV, and it's true that they sit in front of an instrument panel that looks incredibly complicated, but their control in flight is only slightly greater than that of the Russian dog Laika, in a space flight 60 years ago. And why does the legend continue to star in the media? Because the public likes "human" drama - and NASA is built to activate the public's emotional glands and thus ensure the continuation of government budgets. And in the result test, she succeeds.
3 days? 72 hours?
And therefore / how will they defecate?