Courtesy: Minhaz-Ul-Karim Asif, Batch-201, Dept. of EEE, Green University of Bangladesh.
Can a civilian go to space?
What if a bunch of civilians try to go to earth’s orbit?
Seems very futuristic
thought but the future is here!!!
With the vision of SpaceX, commanded
by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, world’s first All-Civilian
Human Spaceflight Mission to Earth’s Orbit launched on 16 September, 2021 from
Florida, Kennedy Space Centre.
The mission is called “Inspiration
4” the first full crew of nonprofessional astronauts to fly to space. None
of the four participants are professional astronauts. In
the past, they have been government-employed
and trained civilians or members of the military.
The civilians were taken into
famous Dragon Crew Capsule which was previously used for sending first ever
human space flight to International Space Station by a private space
exploration company.
The Inspiration4 mission was the
second flight of Resilience, following its use for Crew-1. It
also marked the fourth crewed flight of a Crew Dragon.
Jared Isaacman purchased this
multiday flight from SpaceX for an undisclosed fee. The
four-person crew have raised awareness and
funds worth $200 million for St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital, where this milestone represents a new era for human spaceflight and
exploration.
Inspiration4 have
four seats representing the mission pillars of Leadership, Hope, Generosity,
and Prosperity.
Let’s have a look at our 4
crew members of this historical mission -
Resilience and its crew circled
Earth solo for three days, zooming about 367 miles (590
kilometers) above our planet. That's
higher than any Crew Dragon had ever gone before and significantly higher than
the International Space Station which orbits at an average altitude of 250
miles (400 km), flying
farther than any human since Hubble Space Telescope.
Resilience gained a new domed
window for Inspiration4, offering the crew-members
360-degree view.
The window replaced the equipment that allowed the capsule to dock with the
space station on Crew-1, since the Inspiraton4
flight remained independently in orbit.
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