Inspiration4 mission will orbit Earth for around three days.
SpaceX has launched what it is deeming as the « world’s first all-civilian » crew into orbit as part of its Inspiration4 mission. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from a launchpad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 8.02pm ET,15 September 2021, and will now orbit Earth for roughly three days at an altitude of 575 kilometres — just above the Hubble Space Telescope and 155 kilometres further from the International Space Station. On board the company’s fully automated Crew Dragon spacecraft are four crew members: Shift4 Payments founder and CEO Jared Issacman, cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux, geoscientist Sian Proctor, and aerospace employee Chris Sembroski.
