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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule carrying four private citizens plunged through Earth’s atmosphere Saturday night and splashed down off the east coast of Florida, closing out the company’s first all-civilian mission in space. The Inspiration4 crew — the mission’s billionaire funder Jared Isaacman, geoscientist Sian Proctor, physician assistant Haley Arceneaux, and…

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by Jeff Foust — September 18, 2021 A Falcon 9 launches Turksat 5A in January 2021. SpaceX won a contract to launch Turksat 6A in 2023. Credit: SpaceX KIHEI, Hawaii — Turksat will launch its first domestically built communications satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9, the Turkish government announced Sept.…

Home News Spaceflight Update for 8:24 pm ET: SpaceX's private Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast at 7:06 pm ET (2306 GMT), with the crew swiftly recovered. Read our wrap story. After three days in space, SpaceX's first all-civilian crew will return to…

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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…

SpaceX's first tourist crew brought a plush puppy wearing a spacesuit to orbit with them. The space pup is based on two service dogs, Puggle and Huckleberry, at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The plush dog is sold out, but it's part of the mission's fundraising for childhood-cancer research. Loading…

Home News Spaceflight Inspiration4 astronaut Sian Proctor will bring indie-pop artist Foxanne's new single to space with her as part of a personal playlist. (Image credit: SpaceX) The all-civilian Inspiration4 crew is carrying a special package to space in their personal equipment — a digital copy of an independent artist's…

This article was translated from our Spanish edition. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA , announced this week the award of five contracts for $ 146 million to US companies, including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin , to design lunar landers. NASA Concepto…