Elon Musks SpaceX is aiming to take a giant leap in human spaceflight with its next mission.<\/p>\n
The private rocket company is scheduled to send the first ever all-civilian crew into space as part of a flight scheduled for September.<\/p>\n
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The Inspiration4 missionwill launch the four civilians into space where they will travel across a low Earth orbit on a multi-day journey that will continually eclipse more than 90% of the Earths population.<\/p>\n
The civilian crew members include Jared Isaacman, an accomplished jet pilot and founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments; Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant; Sian Proctor, a teacher and communicator; and Chris Sembroski, an engineer at Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n
Isaacman, who will be commanding the mission, is funding the flight and arranged the mission as a fundraiser for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.<\/p>\n
In fulfilling a personal and lifelong dream, I recognize the tremendous responsibility that comes with commanding this mission. While a historic journey awaits us in space, I hope this mission reinforces how far inspiration can take us and the extraordinary achievements it leads to here on Earth, Isaacman said.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, SpaceXs Crew Dragon successfully carried NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with Japan Aerospace Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, back to Earth from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n
The astronauts splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico just south of Panama City. The NASA Crew-1 astronauts had spent nearly six months in the International Space Stations (ISS) microgravity laboratory. The mission was the longest-ever duration for a crew launched in an American-built spacecraft.<\/p>\n
SpaceX launched the crew to the ISS in November.<\/p>\n
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