Inspiration 4 - First all civilian space flight

[SSJAguila]

 

Summary

SpaceX announced that it will launch a fully civilian crew to orbit the earth. Jared Isaacman purchased the flight and is raffling one of the four seats to people who donate to St. Jude children's research center.

 

Quotes

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Today, it was announced SpaceX is targeting no earlier than the fourth quarter of this year for Falcon 9’s launch of Inspiration4 – the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit – from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the three seats alongside him aboard Dragon to individuals from the general public who will be announced in the weeks ahead. Learn more on how to potentially join this historic journey to space by visiting Inspiration4.com.

 

 

My thoughts

Having the space launch hardware be reliable enough to start sending non astronauts into space is crazy to see.  While there has been plenty of talk about what SpaceX wants to do with human space flight it feels like a big moment to have a flight on the schedule books.  I don't think I'll win the raffle but I do want to have the mission patch, also doesn't hurt to donate to St Jude.

 

Sources

 https://www.spacex.com/updates/inspiration-4-mission/index.html

https://www.inspiration4.com/

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/spacex-announces-first-mission-space-all-civilian-crew-n1256390

https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/other-ways/inspiration4.html?sc_icid=home-spot-help-inspiration4

 

 

[Arika]

40 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Is this another Star Citizen scheme or just expensive fireworks?

There's more of a chance of Inspiration 4 launching than Star Citizen and probably costs less money.

[Beskamir]

20 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Is this another Star Citizen scheme or just expensive fireworks?

Probably expensive fireworks but with the possibility of actually being the firework.

[Master Disaster]

I can't wait for the flattards to start claiming that all the people chosen to go were paid actors and the video footage was clearly CGI despite being shot independently and never going anywhere near Nasa.

[Beskamir]

On 2/6/2021 at 8:00 PM, huilun02 said:

 

Such words being used considering the cost and human lives involved

 

Big yikes

Ah well, I guess dark humor really is like legs, some people have it, some don't.

[Video Beagle]

OH!  I half saw a commerical for this during the superbowl....it was right after a Falcon & The Winter Solider add, so I just shots of space and the number 4 a lot...I thought it was a surprise announcement of the Fantastic Four! then saw it was "inspir4tion"...didn't know what it was but it was for this.

[wamred]

I really thought that you were talking about a game lol