Inspiration4
Falcon 9 Block 5
SpaceX
Weather Forecast During Launch
According to weather officials, there’s a 90% chance of favorable weather conditions at the time of the launch.
Crew
Jared Isaacman
- Birthday: 02/11/1983
- Role: Commander
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 09/16/2021
- Last Flight: 09/16/2021
Jared Isaacman is an American businessman and pilot. He is the co-founder and CEO of Harbortouch, a payment processor and manufacturer of payment-processing hardware.
Sian Proctor
- Birthday: 03/28/1970
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 09/16/2021
- Last Flight: 09/16/2021
Sian Proctor is an American explorer, scientist, STEM communicator, and aspiring astronaut. She is a geology, sustainability and planetary science professor at South Mountain Community College. Proctor was the education outreach officer for the first Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) Mission.
Chris Sembroski
- Birthday: 08/28/1979
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 09/16/2021
- Last Flight: 09/16/2021
Chris Sembroski is an aerospace worker at Lockheed Martin who used to work on Minuteman missiles in the Air Force.
Birth date is unknown.
Hayley Arceneaux
- Birthday: 12/04/1991
- Role: Flight Surgeon
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 09/16/2021
- Last Flight: 09/16/2021
Hayley Arceneaux is a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital employee, bone cancer survivor and private astronaut who is now a physician assistant.
Mission
Inspiration4
- Type: Human Exploration
- Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
- Launch Cost: $52,000,000
Inspiration4 is the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the three seats alongside him aboard Dragon to individuals from the general public – Medical Officer Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and pediatric cancer survivor; Mission Specialist Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer; and Mission Pilot Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscientist, entrepreneur, and trained pilot.
The Inspiration4 crew received commercial astronaut training by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechanics, operating in microgravity, zero gravity, and other forms of stress testing. They will go through emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full mission simulations.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft will remain in a 575 km high orbit for three days before reentering Earth’s atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of Florida. During their multi-day journey in orbit, the Inspiration4 crew will conduct scientific research designed to advance human health on Earth and during future long-duration spaceflights. For this mission, Crew Dragon is configured to feature an observation dome in place of docking port to provide views to the crew.
Location
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 184 rockets, including 183 orbital launch attempts, while Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 242 rocket launches.
Rocket
SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
Landing
Core B1062
Booster B1062 last launched 08/28/2024 and has seen 22 successful launches and landings. Notable launches include GPS III SV04 & SV05 , Inspiration4 and Axiom-1.
Destroyed during its 23rd landing attempt.
Just Read the Instructions – JRTI
Third (Marmac 303) ASDS barge, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) is currently used to recover Falcon 9 and Heavy boosters in the Altantic Ocean.
Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship – ASDS
An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory.
Agency
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
The Falcon 9 is a reliable spacecraft for a mission such as this .Space flight for the general public is now the new normal.
Enjoy all.
So the general public can afford to pay for a seat?
Give it time, eventually it will be the price of a ticket on a cruiseship, maybe even less.
Show your math.
Not unless a cruise ship ticket becomes 10 million bucks.
Private enterprise and market forces will reduce costs in time.
As the story goes “build it and they will come”.
Let’s light this Candle,Spacex.We are go for the first all civilian crew in History.
I hope for a successful mission.
What part of Florida area will this be visible?
If the weather is good it should be visible from most of Florida and best viewed from central and north Florida.
Will people along the east coast be able to see the flame from ship
The launch should be visible from central and north Florida.
Great launch and milestone in space history.
575 Km in Orbit a first for a civilian crew great work SpaceX and the folks at NASA .
The astronaut legends legacy at NASA continues .
That’s one small step for us civilians.