SpaceX’s Inspiration4 crew returns to Earth, capping first fully private mission in orbit
Inspiration4 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 data engineer Chris Sembroski - became the first crew to hang out in Earth orbit without any professionally trained astronauts.
it was a heck of a ride"
The crew's splashdown zone in the Atlantic Ocean was roughly 30 miles east of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where they launched to space atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday. Beginning at about 7:02PM ET, Crew Dragon deployed...