Dragon z nieprofesjonalną załogą 16.09. o 00:02:56 z KSC wystartowała RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona w T+8' 51" na orbitę o parametrach: hp=190 km,
ha=575 km, i=51,6° załogowy statek kosmiczny Crew Dragon Resilience do misji
Inspiration4. Pierwszy stopień RN
(B1062.3) w T+9' 31" wylądował na ASDS JRTI na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n210916.htm#01Inspiration4 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing21 815 wyświetleń
Początek misji Inspiration4 BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 16 WRZEŚNIA 2021
https://kosmonauta.net/2021/09/poczatek-misji-inspiration4/Here are some statistics on tonight's launch:126th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
134th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
3rd launch of Falcon 9 booster B1062
112th Falcon 9 launch from Florida's Space Coast
132nd launch overall from pad 39A
38th SpaceX launch overall from pad 39A
5th orbital launch of a Crew Dragon spacecraft
2nd flight of Crew Dragon Resilience (Dragon C207)
4th Falcon 9/Crew Dragon flight with humans on-board
71st flight of a reused Falcon 9 booster
23rd Falcon 9 launch of 2021
23rd orbital launch by SpaceX in 2021
23rd orbital launch based out of Cape Canaveral in 2021
Here's a timeline of the major events during the Falcon 9's climb to orbit, including the booster's maneuvers to return to Earth for landing on SpaceX's drone ship:T+01:02: Max-Q (moment of peak aerodynamic pressure)
T+02:37: First stage main engine cutoff
T+02:40: Stage separation
T+02:41: Second stage engine ignition
T+07:30: First stage entry burn
T+08:51: Second stage engine cutoff
T+09:04: First stage landing burn
T+09:31: First stage landing
T+12:09: Crew Dragon separation from second stage
T+13:02: Crew Dragon nose cone opening
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/18/inspiration-4-return-mission-status-center/https://twitter.com/inspiration4x/status/1438282104664645634Main engine cutoff and stage separation confirmed. Second stage engine burn underway
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1438294284067749889Dragon Resilience Primed for Wednesday Launch, As Inspiration4 Prepares to InspireBy Ben Evans, on September 15th, 2021
Dragon Resilience delivered Crew-1 astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 167-day mission between 15 November 2020 and 2 May 2021. Inspiration4 will be the vehicle’s second spaceflight. Photo Credit: NASAhttps://www.americaspace.com/2021/09/15/dragon-resilience-primed-for-wednesday-launch-as-inspiration4-prepares-to-inspire/Photos: Inspiration4 launches from Kennedy Space CenterSeptember 20, 2021 Stephen Clark
Credits: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photographyhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/20/photos-inspiration4-launches-from-kennedy-space-center/Dragon Resilience Primed for Wednesday Launch, As Inspiration4 Prepares to InspireBy Ben Evans, on September 15th, 2021
The Inspiration4 crew poses as their 230-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 booster and Dragon Resilience are rolled out to Pad 39A. From left to right are Chris Sembroski, Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux and Sian Proctor. Photo Credit: John Kraus/Inspiration4.com(...) Early last February, Resilience broke Skylab 4’s 84-day endurance record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. crew-carrying vehicle. The mission also saw Glover become the most flight-experienced African-American astronaut and Walker serve the shortest-ever tenure for an ISS Commander.
Following a smooth return to Earth and splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico last 2 May, Resilience was rapidly reconfigured to fly Inspiration4. Her processing flow from splashdown to launch, if tonight’s liftoff goes ahead as planned, will be accomplished in just 136 days, a little more than half the 264 days it took to prepare her sister, Dragon Endeavour, between her Demo-2 and in-progress Crew-2 missions. (...)
But Benji Reed, SpaceX’s head of crew mission management, noted that the target altitude was bound by performance and other supply-budget consumables, including such requirements as carbon dioxide removal and food. The need to cater for Micrometeoroid Orbital Debris (MMOD) impacts and radiation levels at higher altitudes also factored into mission planning for this flight. (...)
Not only Resilience, but also the core stage of tonight’s Falcon 9 have prior flight experience. The booster, tailnumbered “B1062”, previously saw service to launch the fourth and fifth Block III Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites in November 2020 and more recently in June of this year. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2021/09/15/dragon-resilience-primed-for-wednesday-launch-as-inspiration4-prepares-to-inspire/For the first time, NASA is a spectator for a U.S. crew mission to low Earth orbitSeptember 14, 2021 Stephen Clark
Jared Isaacman, commander of the Inspiration4 mission, trains in a Crew Dragon simulator at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceXhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/14/for-the-first-time-nasa-is-a-spectator-for-a-u-s-crew-mission-to-low-earth-orbit/Inspiration4 crew chats with Elon Musk, works through first full day in spaceSeptember 16, 2021 William Harwood
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION
A view of the cupola window on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. Credit: SpaceXThe first all-civilian, privately-funded crew to reach orbit came through their initial hours in weightless environment of space “healthy, happy and resting comfortably,” SpaceX reported Thursday. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/16/inspiration4-crew-chats-with-elon-musk-works-through-first-full-day-in-space/Inspiration4 crew describes “incredible perspective” from spaceSeptember 17, 2021 Stephen Clark
The Inspiration4 crew downlinks a live update from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. Credit: SpaceXOn their final full day in space Friday, the all-civilian Inspiration4 crew circling Earth inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule chatted with Tom Cruise, rang the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange, and downlinked a live video update showing views outside their cupola dome window. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/17/inspiration4-crew-describes-incredible-perspective-from-space/Photos: Inspiration4’s rocket ready for launch on pad 39ASeptember 15, 2021 Stephen Clark
Photographers visited launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday to set up remote cameras. Photographer Michael Cain captured these views of the 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft ahead of liftoff on the Inspiration 4 private crew mission.
Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photographyhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/15/photos-inspiration4s-rocket-ready-for-launch-on-pad-39a/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/09/spacex-launch-inspiration4/AA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4471.msg169444#msg169444EDIT:
Resilience zwodował 18.09. o 23:06:49 na Atlantyku zwodowała kabina statku kosmicznego Crew Dragon Resilience po misji
Inspiration4.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n210916.htm#04SpaceX Inspiration4 splashdown10 896 wyświetleń
https://twitter.com/DrSianProctor/status/1439606958923845645All-civilian crew prepares for Saturday evening splashdownSeptember 18, 2021 William Harwood
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION
The Inspiration4 crew members wrapped up their third and final day in orbit Saturday and set their sights on an automated plunge back to Earth, a steep descent to an evening splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Canaveral to wrap up a history-making flight. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/18/inspiration4-crew-prepares-for-saturday-evening-splashdown/Funko reaches new heights: Company’s ‘Big Bang’ Pop! figure was part of crew on SpaceX missionBY KURT SCHLOSSER on September 23, 2021 at 5:22 pm
Funko, the Everett, Wash.-based maker of Pop! figurines and other collectibles, has expanded its market reach. To space.
The company tweeted an image Thursday showing one of its popular toys floating high above Earth, thanks to the fact that it was packed along for the ride aboard the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission by Everett native Chris Sembroski.
https://twitter.com/OriginalFunko/status/1441160487618613248(...)
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/funko-reaches-new-heights-companys-big-bang-pop-figure-part-crew-spacex-mission/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/18/elon-musk-pledges-50-million-to-inspiration4-fundraiser-for-st-jude.html?__twitter_impression=true&recirc=taboolainternalhttps://twitter.com/Astro_Megan/status/1438150622721847296From Etsy to Earth orbit: Inspiration4 crew packs mementos for spaceSeptember 14, 2021 — Hayley Arceneaux is about to become the first person with a prosthetic body part to enter space. She will be the youngest American to orbit Earth. And she may be the first astronaut to have shopped on Etsy to find some of her personal space gear. (...)
Arceneaux's space-bound items, which also include her late father's favorite neck tie, her parents' wedding rings, models of NASA's early rockets and a small crocheted astronaut doll that she may have also found on Etsy ("for future kids" she noted on Instagram) are part of a tradition dating back to the early years of human spaceflight. (...)
A geoscientist and professor, Proctor's winning business offered her original artwork and poetry that she uses to spread the message of a "J.E.D.I. space" — a Just, Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive space. She is taking with her to space several examples of her Afrofuturism art, including "Seeker," a painting that previously was taken to Challenger Deep, the lowest point on Earth, and to the sunken remains of the Titanic on astronaut-led expeditions.
Proctor is also flying watercolor paints and other materials to create more of her art and poetry while in space and has packed keepsakes from her family and friends to inspire her works. One of those items is from her late father, who tracked the data received from experiments deployed by NASA astronauts on the moon. (...)
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-091421a-inspiration4-crew-space-souvenirs.htmlInspiration4 splashes down from first 'all-civilian' Earth orbit missionSeptember 18, 2021 — Three days after lifting off on a privately-funded mission, the first orbital spaceflight without a professional astronaut on board, the crew of Inspiration4 returned to Earth. (...)
The two-day, 23-hour and four-minute mission —
the 27th shortest orbital crewed flight in history — was paid for by Isaacman, a billionaire businessmen and fighter jet pilot. The Inspiration4 crew also included Sian Proctor, a geoscientist and artist who became the first Black woman to serve as a spacecraft pilot; medical officer Hayley Arceneaux, a cancer survivor and physician's assistant who at 29 years old was the youngest American and first person with a prosthetic body part to fly into space; and mission specialist Chris Sembroski, an aerospace data engineer. (...)
The Inspiration4 astronauts were the third crew to return from orbit on a SpaceX Dragon and the 34th U.S. mission to splash down. They were the 588th through 591st people to fly into space and the 25th through 28th individuals to do so on a commercial flight. (...)
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-091821a-inspiration4-crew-spacex-splashdown.htmlMichelle Obama, Tom Cruise and Floating M&Ms: Inspiration4 Relive 'Amazing' SpaceX JourneyBy Nick Maslow September 22, 2021 10:10 AM
Inspiration4 crew after splashdown | CREDIT: SPACEX(...) That even includes their chat with Tom Cruise, who called into the Dragon on Friday. "Maverick, you can be our wingman anytime," the Inspiration4 tweeted.
"That was certainly a cool conversation because the four of us, during the 30-hour simulation, I won't say who, but it was discovered that at least one crew member had never seen Top Gun before," Isaacman says, teasing an unidentified crew member. "We tried to right that by all four of us on our flight tablets hitting go at the same time, watching Top Gun."
Isaacman and Sembroski also watched Mel Books' 1987 classic Spaceballs as they were gearing up for re-entry on Sunday — but it wasn't all fun and games.
"I think it would be fair to say — and everybody should chime in here — I do think there was probably a greater degree of stress on the way downhill than there was on the way up," says Isaacman.
In their first interview since returning to Earth, the world's first all-civilian space crew opens up to PEOPLE about their milestones — from launch to splashdown. (...)
https://people.com/human-interest/inspiration4-relive-amazing-spacex-journey-exclusive-interview/https://inspiration4.com/newsAA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4471.msg169544#msg169544AA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4199.msg149177#msg149177https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/09/inspiration4-splashdown-florida/EDIT 26.02.23
https://twitter.com/ArceneauxHayley/status/1601360726861676545https://twitter.com/ArceneauxHayley/status/1602739710174138369https://twitter.com/scottacampbell/status/1572030179429552130https://twitter.com/DrSianProctor/status/1627791709479522304https://twitter.com/DrSianProctor/status/1625941936547987457https://twitter.com/DrSianProctor/status/1629295769952952320https://twitter.com/DrSianProctor/status/1629240334499852288https://twitter.com/DrSianProctor/status/1629186680660889607https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1627455379067240450https://twitter.com/asumixcenter/status/1611147507849101313https://twitter.com/asu365CU/status/1628847418300063745https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1627090072406478848