The four space tourists of the company SpaceX spent their first day in orbit, during which they circled the Earth 5.5 times, did research, talked to patients from a children’s cancer hospital, AFP reported.
The children from St. Jude’s Hospital talked to the crew of the “Inspiration4” mission. “by asking them questions that the whole world is asking itself – “are there any cows on the moon“- wrote on Twitter from the hospital.
This is the first space mission with a completely unprofessional staff. The flight is controlled from Earth.
The crew “circled the Earth 5.5 times, performed the first series of tests, ate several times and went to bed“- Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, wrote on Twitter. He assured that he had talked to the four and” everything is going well. “
Space tourists today will enter the glass dome of the “Dragon” capsule, where they will have a 360-degree view. It is in place of the docking system with the International Space Station.
The crew is led by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, founder of e-commerce company Shift4 Payments. The amount he paid for the trip is unknown. He is joined by Shan Procter, 51, a geoscience professor, medical assistant Hailey Arsenau, 29, and Chris Sembroski, 42, a U.S. Air Force veteran. They will remain in orbit for three days.
Tourists who have undergone five months of training orbit the Earth every 90 minutes at speeds above 27,000 km / h. The altitude is 575 km, beyond the orbits of the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope. According to SpaceX, this is the highest altitude humans have reached since the 1972 NASA moon mission.
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