Crew Dragon circled Earth once every 90 minutes at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour (27,360 kph) - about 22 times the speed of sound.ĭuring their three-day sojourn in space, the amateur astronauts conducted scientific research on how their bodies were adjusting to the zero-gravity environment.
This is higher than the International Space Station or the Hubble Space Telescope, and the furthest any civilian has traveled above Earth. Within three hours, the spacecraft had reached the final cruising orbital altitude of just over 357 miles (575 km). The quartet lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, shortly after 8 p.m. The spacecraft orbited at an altitude of 575 km (Credit: ) The amateur astronauts - 38-year-old tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, 51-year-old geoscientist Sian Proctor, 42-year-old aerospace data engineer Chris Sembroski, and 29-year-old physician assistant Hayley Arceneaux- were quickly whisked to Florida's mainland by helicopter. The Crew Dragon capsule, carrying the Inspiration4 crew members, splashed down off the Florida coast at 7:06 p.m, marking the end of its three-day orbit around Earth. On September 18, 2021, the American aerospace company did it again by completing the world's first-ever all- civilian mission to space. It was the first private spaceflight company to transport astronauts to the International Space Station and the first to develop a reusable rocket booster. Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX is known for making history. SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule carrying four civilians safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on Septem(Credit: )
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