A rich guy has hired a Crew Dragon and is flying himself and three other people that he selected on a 3-day orbital flight. It's an interesting group of people. Space adventurers.
It's the first entirely non-nasa orbital crewed spaceflight ever flown from the United States. First non-government crewed orbital spaceflight anywhere.
The idea with Commercial Crew was that nasa would end up being just one customer of many.
Set to launch tomorrow at 8:02 pm EDT, 5:02 PM PDT and 00:02 Thursday morning UTC.
Booster is B1062 on its third mission. The two previous were GPS satellites for the Space Force. Recovery will be on JRTI. Capsule will be Resilience on its second human spaceflight, having previously flown Crew-1.
A major Crew Dragon modification for this flight was removal of the Space Station docking port and its replacement with a big transparent viewing dome.
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It's the first entirely non-nasa orbital crewed spaceflight ever flown from the United States. First non-government crewed orbital spaceflight anywhere.
The idea with Commercial Crew was that nasa would end up being just one customer of many.
Set to launch tomorrow at 8:02 pm EDT, 5:02 PM PDT and 00:02 Thursday morning UTC.
Booster is B1062 on its third mission. The two previous were GPS satellites for the Space Force. Recovery will be on JRTI. Capsule will be Resilience on its second human spaceflight, having previously flown Crew-1.
A major Crew Dragon modification for this flight was removal of the Space Station docking port and its replacement with a big transparent viewing dome.
https://inspiration4.com/