'Happy' SpaceX tourist crew spend first day whizzing around Earth
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon seen on the launch pad, which was used for the first completely private mission to fly into orbit, sending four private citizens on a three-day mission. — AFP
Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who chartered the flight, is trying to raise US$200mil for the research facility.Earlier, Elon Musk’s company tweeted that the four were “healthy” and “happy”, had completed their first round of scientific research, and enjoyed a couple of meals.By now, they should have also been able to gaze out from the Dragon ship’s cupola – the largest space window ever built, which has been fitted onto the vessel for the first time in place of its usual docking mechanism.
That is deeper in space than the ISS, which orbits at 420 kilometers , and the furthest any humans have ventured since a 2009 maintenance mission for the Hubble telescope. Apart from fundraising for charity, the mission aims to study the biological effects of deep space on the astronauts’ bodies.
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