SpaceX launched 4 amateurs on a private Earth-circling trip

SpaceX:- SpaceX sent four amateurs to their first private flight, on September 15, 2021.

Highlights

• SpaceX’s first “Earth-circling” trip was launched onboard two contest winners and a wealthy sponsor.

• This is the biggest leap in space tourism.

• It was the first time a rocket was launched into orbit by an amateur crew, and it did not include any professional astronauts.

• Two women and two men are excited to spend three days in a Dragon capsule, which will circle the globe.

• They will orbit the Earth in an unusually high orbit, 160 km higher than that of the International Space Station.

• Their flight will take off from the Florida coast on September 19 th

• The Dragon capsule was designed to reach an altitude of 575km, above the Hubble Space Telescope.

Who is leading this flight?

Jared Isaacman, who made his fortune at the payment-processing firm, is leading the flight. After the space-skimming flights by Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos from Blue Origin in July 2021, Isaacman is now the third billionaire to launch a flight. Arceneaux, who is also flying, is poised to become the youngest American to fly in space and the first person to have a prosthesis (a titanium rod in her left leg) to travel in space.

Space Tourism

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has entered this flight in the competition to win space tourism dollars.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

SpaceX is an American aerospace company, providing space transportation services and communications. Its headquarters are in Hawthorne (California). Elon Musk founded the company in 2002 with the goal of reducing the cost of space transport and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX produces the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles as well as rocket engines, crew spacecraft, and Dragon cargo. It also makes Starlink communications satellites.

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