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SpaceX Launch of Inspiration4, the World's First Private Orbital Spaceflight!

 
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Today will be the first attempt to launch the first fully private orbital spaceflight. Some are describing as the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, but that's not really accurate. A number of spaceflights have involved an all-civilian crew (particularly if we don't count previous military experience since Chris Sembroski is a veteran himself), but this flight is unique as it is the first time a crewed vehicle has launched to orbit with a private, commercial crew trained by a private company, riding a privately owned vehicle. This achievement will be an order of magnitude more difficult than the sub-orbital hops of Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin. Those were short flights straight up and back down, this flight will attain orbital velocity and stay in space for days.

The target orbit altitude is 575 km, higher than ISS and higher than the current altitude of Hubble. From there, the crew will observe the earth through the largest single window ever launched into orbit, a large bubble shaped cupola which is replacing the Dragon capsule's docking adapter for this mission. They will stay in orbit for 3 days before splashing down off the coast of Florida. Jared Isaacman, who is commanding and paying for this mission, is also attempting to use it to raise $200 million in donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Launch time is 8:02 pm eastern, the webcast will go live starting in about 30 minutes:

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Ah, so you think this private space mission is fake too, I assume? So no one will be able to track it in orbit, right?
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laugh That’s so stupid! laugh
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That’s only a few kilometers farther than we’ve photographed in a straight line on earth.

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Astro.. thanks, as usual, for sharing!
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Do they have a backup place for landing? The Florida coast is about to be tsunami’d from the LaPalma volcano….
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Musk for president

2024

Wait he'll be emperor of Mars by then
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a worthy charity.


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The problem is this...

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Freakin Awesome. Will be watching it all...
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So will you be tracking this one Astro?
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Do they have a backup place for landing? The Florida coast is about to be tsunami’d from the LaPalma volcano….
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Actually LOLed :)
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Remember the last time they let a woman "drive"....
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That's badass...
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Ah, so you think this private space mission is fake too, I assume? So no one will be able to track it in orbit, right?
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Nice!
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Today will be the first attempt to launch the first fully private orbital spaceflight. Some are describing as the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, but that's not really accurate. A number of spaceflights have involved an all-civilian crew (particularly if we don't count previous military experience since Chris Sembroski is a veteran himself), but this flight is unique as it is the first time a crewed vehicle has launched to orbit with a private, commercial crew trained by a private company, riding a privately owned vehicle. This achievement will be an order of magnitude more difficult than the sub-orbital hops of Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin. Those were short flights straight up and back down, this flight will attain orbital velocity and stay in space for days.

The target orbit altitude is 575 km, higher than ISS and higher than the current altitude of Hubble. From there, the crew will observe the earth through the largest single window ever launched into orbit, a large bubble shaped cupola which is replacing the Dragon capsule's docking adapter for this mission. They will stay in orbit for 3 days before splashing down off the coast of Florida. Jared Isaacman, who is commanding and paying for this mission, is also attempting to use it to raise $200 million in donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Launch time is 8:02 pm eastern, the webcast will go live starting in about 30 minutes:

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LOVE IT! Will see what advantage Musk has -
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hopefully they don't let Elon near the rockets ike they do the cars

elon probably wanted the rockets to look like the Winnebago from spaceballs
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The problem is this...

[imgur] [link to imgur.com (secure)]

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the problem is, you're a moron
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a worthy charity.


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Who really gives a fuck about the Rich little kids playing with rockets ??? Fuck them and everything about them.
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Who really gives a fuck about the Rich little kids playing with rockets ??? Fuck them and everything about them.
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but but but elon is a genius...who like all billionaires, when something is broken and needs fixing (Earth) they just say "lets buy a new planet"

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Today will be the first attempt to launch the first fully private orbital spaceflight. Some are describing as the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, but that's not really accurate. A number of spaceflights have involved an all-civilian crew (particularly if we don't count previous military experience since Chris Sembroski is a veteran himself), but this flight is unique as it is the first time a crewed vehicle has launched to orbit with a private, commercial crew trained by a private company, riding a privately owned vehicle. This achievement will be an order of magnitude more difficult than the sub-orbital hops of Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin. Those were short flights straight up and back down, this flight will attain orbital velocity and stay in space for days.

The target orbit altitude is 575 km, higher than ISS and higher than the current altitude of Hubble. From there, the crew will observe the earth through the largest single window ever launched into orbit, a large bubble shaped cupola which is replacing the Dragon capsule's docking adapter for this mission. They will stay in orbit for 3 days before splashing down off the coast of Florida. Jared Isaacman, who is commanding and paying for this mission, is also attempting to use it to raise $200 million in donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Launch time is 8:02 pm eastern, the webcast will go live starting in about 30 minutes:

 Quoting: Astromut


Thank you so much for posting this Astro....I had heard about it but had no idea it was coming up this quickly.

Look forward to watching....
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Today will be the first attempt to launch the first fully private orbital spaceflight. Some are describing as the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, but that's not really accurate. A number of spaceflights have involved an all-civilian crew (particularly if we don't count previous military experience since Chris Sembroski is a veteran himself), but this flight is unique as it is the first time a crewed vehicle has launched to orbit with a private, commercial crew trained by a private company, riding a privately owned vehicle. This achievement will be an order of magnitude more difficult than the sub-orbital hops of Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin. Those were short flights straight up and back down, this flight will attain orbital velocity and stay in space for days.

The target orbit altitude is 575 km, higher than ISS and higher than the current altitude of Hubble. From there, the crew will observe the earth through the largest single window ever launched into orbit, a large bubble shaped cupola which is replacing the Dragon capsule's docking adapter for this mission. They will stay in orbit for 3 days before splashing down off the coast of Florida. Jared Isaacman, who is commanding and paying for this mission, is also attempting to use it to raise $200 million in donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Launch time is 8:02 pm eastern, the webcast will go live starting in about 30 minutes:

 Quoting: Astromut


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Who really gives a fuck about the Rich little kids playing with rockets ??? Fuck them and everything about them.
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