Jared isaacman, CEO of Harbortouch

SpaceX announced on Monday that it will launch four private individuals on a Crew Dragon capsule into orbit around the Earth, dubbed as "the world's first all-civilian mission." It is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of 2021.The company's spacecraft would be commanded by Jared Isaacman, the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, who is also a trained pilot. The mission, known as Inspiration4, seeks to raise support for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital."Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, is donating the three seats alongside him aboard Dragon to individuals from the general public who will be announced in the weeks ahead," the statement read."The Inspiration4 crew will receive commercial astronaut training by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechcs, 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," it added.This multi-day journey, orbiting Earth every 90 minutes along a customized flight path, will be carefully monitored at every step by the mission control.Upon conclusion of the mission, Dragon, the spacecraft, will re-enter Earth's atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of Florida.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

Home

City

Latest News

Cricket

LT Premium

National

International

Maharashtra

Opinions

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar

Nagpur

Entertainment

Photos

Business

Technology

Sports

Lifestyle

Social Viral

Lokmat Games

Health

Lok Sabha Election 2024

Heatwave In India

Mumbai Water Cut

Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election

IPL 2024

Salman Khan

Jared IsaacmanFOLLOW

Jared isaacman, Latest News

Technology :Inspiration4: SpaceX's all-civilian mission launches to orbit

San Francisco, Sep 16 Inspiration4, run by tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, has launched its first all-civilian mission ... ...

Technology :SpaceX finally prepares to send 1st all-civilian crew into orbit

San Francisco, Sep 14 SpaceX, run by tech billionaire Elon Musk-run, is all set to launch to orbit ... ...

Technology :SpaceX's first all-civilian mission to launch on Sep 15

San Francisco, Sep 5 SpaceX, run by tech billionaire Elon Musk-run, is all set to launch to orbit ... ...

International :SpaceX to launch world's first all-civilian astronaut mission to orbit in late 2021

SpaceX announced on Monday that it will launch four private individuals on a Crew Dragon capsule into orbit around the Earth, dubbed as "the world's first all-civilian mission." It is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of 2021. ...