The booster's nine engines shut down two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, the stage fell away and the flight continued on the power of the upper stage's single vacuum-rated engine. The sky-lighting ascent went smoothly with the first stage, making its third flight, powering the rocket out of the dense lower atmosphere. The Inspiration4 civilian crew aboard a Crew Dragon capsule and SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. EDT, lighting up the early evening sky as the booster thundered away from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center atop 1.7 million pounds of thrust.
The Falcon 9's first stage engines ignited on time at 8:02 p.m. "Punch it, SpaceX!"Īnd punch it they did. "Inspiration4 is go for launch," Isaacman radioed flight controllers moments before liftoff.
Jude cancer survivor who now works at the hospital. Strapped in along with billionaire Jared Isaacman, who chartered the mission, were Chris Sembroski, an "everyday" aerospace engineer Sian Proctor, an artist-educator who will become only the fourth Black woman to fly in space and Hayley Arceneaux, a St. An all-civilian crew streaked into space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday on the first privately funded, non-government trip to orbit, a historic three-day flight devoted to raising $200 million for St.
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