SpaceX made history on Wednesday night lifting off four amateur astronauts from the Kennedy Space Centre, which became the first all civilians crew to reach orbit in a fully commercial mission. This visit for the civilians was fully sponsored and organized by the American Aerospace company owner Elon Musk.
The SpaceX flight was powered by the Falcon 9 rocket, which took the Crew Dragon capsule roaring into space. At around 5:32 am IST, the launch took place from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral in Florida. 12 minutes later the capsule separates from the Falcon 9 rocket and informed the crew has successfully been launched into orbit. Later on Wednesday, SpaceX confirmed that the spacecraft had drifted to an altitude of 363 miles exceeding the intended 360 miles target.
Jared Issacman, the billionaire and philanthropist who funded the trip was on board the civilian rocket. He is the founder and CEO of payment processor Shift 4 Payments Inc, and also a mission commander of the spaceflight with pilot training. Issac was joined by a 29-year pediatric cancer survivor who became the first person to fly into space with a prosthetic device. Chris Sembroski, a US Air Force Veteran who works as an aerospace data engineer for Lockheed Martin in Seattle also accompanied the crew. The last civilian was Sian Proctor who is a geoscientist in Pheonix.
The launch dubbed as Inspiration 4, was the first of its kind excavation that ferried civilians on a three-day journey in the orbit overpowering the recent visit by Jeff Bezos and his companions.