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Live: SpaceX to launch four civilians to orbit in mission known as Inspiration4
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's somewhat remarkable how much we've lowered the health requirements for people going to space. That's cool.
Yeah, Hayley is the first person to go into space with a prosthesis. And it wasn’t special-designed for space of course.. she had her knee replaced as a kid while removing a bone cancer.
This is great news as a cancer survivor.
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#13Maybe I'm jaded but I find no "inspiration" in one billionaire sending another one into space. I know they took along "guests" but I can't imagine there's any significant science in this.
I don't know, the bravery and courage it took for the "guests" to join this ride inspired me to donate to St. Jude.
If it had just been billionaires (and a token scientist or aspirational astronaut), I may have agreed with your jaded opinion.
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#14I posted this in a duplicate thread, but I don’t think this is the first “all civilian” space flight?
E.g. Here is a space flight where no crew members were in the military:
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#15Gotta say, "launching four civilians to orbit" definitely conjures up a certain mental image!
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#16Considering the Bezos/Branson debacle, I think it's easy for people to get lost in the "This is just another billionaire paying to go to space" thing... and it is, but that's a small part of it. The passengers themselves are basically unimportant compared to the bigger picture.
Who cares if the passengers are some random billionaire and a group of people carefully chosen purely as a publicity stunt, let him have his attention/marketing that he gets on the side of paying for this trip... the real story is the actual actions that happened:
This is the first time a group of civilians have gone into (proper orbital) space on a re-usable launch system as paying tourists.
This is a MASSIVE moment for space travel in general, and has absolutely proven that SpaceX is onto something really special here with their systems and people.
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#17Looks like they’ll be performing some health research while up there.
> Specifically, data will be collected on the crew members' ECG activity, movement, sleep, heart rate and rhythm, blood oxygen levels as well as the light and sound levels within the Crew Dragon cabin, according to the statement. The research will also monitor both behavioral and cognitive performance using an app called Cognition, organ systems using an artificial intelligence-powered ultrasound device designed for use by non-experts to assess the crew's balance and perception before and after the flight.
Doing some blood sampling too. Very few people have been to space, so glad to see they’re adding themselves to these studies.
https://www.space.com/inspiration4-spacex-mission-research-h...
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#18I posted this in a duplicate thread, but I don’t think this is the first “all civilian” space flight? E.g. Here is a space flight where no crew members were in the military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-09
Right, they're using the term informally to mean non-government with no professional astronauts. (They clarified this on the stream.)
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#19I posted this in a duplicate thread, but I don’t think this is the first “all civilian” space flight? E.g. Here is a space flight where no crew members were in the military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-09
Civilian in this case is being used to denote that none of the crew is being sent as part of a governmental agency. In the the flight you are referencing all 3 crew were members of governmental space agencies.
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#20It seems so ordinary yet surreal. So second nature. Seems as if humanity has access to another realm suddenly. It probably must have felt the same when the airplanes started carrying ordinary joe blows.