SpaceX to launch first all-commercial crew of astronauts
A billionaire, a physician assistant, a geoscience professor and an engineer rocketed to space aboard a SpaceX capsule in the latest milestone for the commercial space industry — the first time an entire crew of people who aren’t professional astronauts reached orbit.shortly after 5 p.m. Pacific time from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The capsule separated from the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket about 12 minutes after liftoff.
“Few have come before, and many are about to follow,” he said on a livestream of the launch after the capsule reached space. “The door’s opening now, and it’s pretty incredible.”With the launch, Isaacman aimed to raise $200 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
She is the capsule’s pilot and is the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft. A minute before launch, she made a thumbs-up sign at a camera inside the capsule, following it seconds later with a heart; about nine minutes after lift-off, after mission control called out that the capsule made a “nominal,” or normal, orbit insertion, she gave another thumbs-up.
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