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The SpaceX company announced on Monday that at the end of this year it will launch the Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, responsible for the Inspiration4 mission, “the world’s first fully commercial astronaut” to orbit the Earth. run for “different days.”
SpaceX said in a statement that the launch, with a crew of four civilians, will be from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Elon Musk’s company emphasized that Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, one of the four crew members who will be aboard Dragon, will be donating the other three seats to people of the general public to be announced in the coming weeks .
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Inspiration4’s crew will receive commercial astronaut training from SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechanics, microgravity operation, zero gravity and other tests.
Citizens will go through “emergency preparedness, boarding and disembarking exercises for spacecraft and spacesuits, as well as partial and full mission simulations,” the statement said.
Orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes along a modified flight path, this multi-day journey will be carefully monitored every step of the way by SpaceX Mission Control.
Upon completion of the mission, Dragon will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere to splash off the coast of Florida. The company said the mission will be carried out “not before the fourth quarter of this year.”
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He recalled that in 2020 SpaceX “returned the capability” to the United States to transport NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station, for the first time since the Space Shuttle’s last flight in 2011.
He stressed that in addition to flying NASA personnel, Dragon was also designed to transport commercial astronauts to orbit, the ISS, or beyond.
Last week, the Axiom Space company announced to the crew that it will be part of the first private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), which they may arrive aboard a SpaceX capsule early next year.
Led by Latin American Michael López-Alegría, a former NASA astronaut who has already completed four other space missions, Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) will depart from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA) with American Larry Connor, Canadian Mark Pathy and Israeli Eytan Stibbe on board.