Were you praying you would witness the day no billionaire wanted to pay for a trip to space? Well, one of the pioneers of space tourism, Space Adventures, announced that it couldn t find viable interest in space tourism from the few who can afford it.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk delivered what no previous human missions to outer space could. The company took four civilian crew members to outer space in a spacecraft with no professional astronauts on board and returned them safely to Earth after three days. While the successful mission was an encouragement to others attempting something similar, the all-civilian crew faced some trouble during their voyage.
the coast of florida. spent three days orbiting the earth at an altitude of 570 kilometres. the spacecraft was operated by ground based flight teams and onboard guidance systems. here they are celebrating as the capsule arrived back on earth. inspiration4, on behalf of spacex, welcome back to planet earth. you have shown that everyday people can make extraordinary impacts. thank you for showing your leadership, hope, prosperity and generosity. thank you. smooth landing there. the bbc s simonjones told me about the crew on board the mission. four crew members, ordinary people, we re told, not the usual astronauts who have had years and years of training. it was a built in billionaire
boom here at cape canaveral as the spacex inspiration4 crew re-entered the earth s atmosphere before splashing down in the atlantic ocean just off the coast of florida. this was the culmination of a three-day mission to orbit, the first time that a crew made up of entirely amateur astronauts or non-professional government astronauts, have ever been to space with just them, no pros on board. but that was precisely the point, spacex and the commander 38-year-old jared isaacman, trying to prove that you can do this, that they can open up the doors to space travel for everyone and it all feeds into elon musk s ultimate goal of some day colonizing mars. we witnessed a successful splash down of the crew dragon capsule. it was hoisted back up on to a crew capsule recovery ship which will eventually make its way right here to port canaveral. the crew, they got to fly by