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Home References Spaceflight Billionaire Jared Isaacman's privately chartered spaceflight launched on Sept. 15, 2021, becoming the first crewed orbital mission with no professional astronauts on board. The flight, dubbed "Inspiration4," was named to commemorate the four-person crew and their associated "pillars" of support for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in…

by Jason Rainbow — September 23, 2021 Astranis is slated to launch as a secondary payload on the next commercial Falcon Heavy mission. Credit: SpaceX TAMPA, Fla. — Astranis said Sept. 23 that SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will launch its first commercial satellite in a direct-inject mission to geostationary orbit…

by Jeff Foust — September 22, 2021 Blue Origin argues that the failure of SpaceX to include flight readiness reviews for every Starship element launch rendered its proposal deficient and thus "unawardable." Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — Blue Origin is seeking to overturn NASA’s award of a lunar lander contract to…

The space tourist crew who spent three days orbiting Earth in a SpaceX Dragon capsule has returned to our planet in one piece. The gang, dubbed Inspiration4, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast just after 1900 EST (2300 UTC) on Saturday. They were checked over by…

Author of the article: The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit. The successful launch and return of the mission, the…

Media caption, Watch the moment the SpaceX capsule splashed back down to EarthFour amateur astronauts have splashed down successfully in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space. They are the first private, all-civilian team ever to orbit the Earth. The Inspiration4 crew left on a SpaceX capsule from Florida…

Almost home. Inspiration4 Best three-day "weekend" ever? That may be the question SpaceX's four civilian astronauts are putting to themselves after returning to Earth on Saturday. The crew of the historic Inspiration4 mission splashed down off the Florida coast at about 7 p.m. local time, after having orbited the globe…

Hayley Arceneaux, a physician's assistant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and medical specialist on the Inspiration4 mission, in the Crew Dragon cupola. Inspiration4x/Twitter Imagine getting a call saying that if you want, you can join the rare group of less than a thousand humans who've not only visited space…

Many thousands of people touch down in Florida every day. But no other civilians have ever done it the way that Jared Isaacman, Haley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski and Sian Proctor did at precisely 7:06 p.m. on Saturday, splashing down from space into the Atlantic. They were the crew aboard SpaceX…

by Jeff Foust — September 18, 2021 The Crew Dragon spacecraft Resilience splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast Sept. 18 at the end of the Inspiration4 mission. Credit: Inspiration4 Updated 10:25 a.m. Eastern Sept. 19 with Musk donation. KIHEI, Hawaii — SpaceX’s first private crewed mission…