Artykuły o Inspiration4

[Orionid]

Four civilian space travelers back on Earth after landmark flight
September 18, 2021 Stephen Clark [SFN]


SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spaceship descends to the Atlantic Ocean Saturday to end the Inspiration4 mission. Credit: Inspiration4 / SpaceX

Four civilian space travelers rode a SpaceX capsule through a blazing re-entry back into Earth’s atmosphere Saturday evening and safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Cape Canaveral, completing a historic 71 hours in space as the first privately-funded, non-government crew to fly in orbit.

Source: https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/18/four-civilian-space-travelers-back-on-earth-after-landmark-flight/

[Orionid]

After Inspiration4, SpaceX sees high demand for free-flyer missions
ERIC BERGER - 9/20/2021, 3:37 PM [AT]

"We have interest for both Dragons and Starships, which is pretty exciting."


Enlarge / Dr. Sian Proctor seems to have enjoyed three days in orbit.

Four amateur astronauts returned from a three-day private spaceflight this weekend overflowing with enthusiasm about the experience. "Best ride of my life," said Dr. Sian Proctor shortly after emerging from the Crew Dragon capsule.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/after-inspiration4-spacex-sees-high-demand-for-free-flyer-missions/

[Orionid]

NASA astronaut: More than one road to space, 'one of those roads is for you'
Monisha Ravisetti  Sept. 21, 2021 1:34 p.m. PT [CNET]

Former NASA astronaut Cady Coleman on the importance of the first mission to space that doesn't feature professional astronauts.

Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson already traveled to and from the edge of space this year, but last week, the phrase "amateur astronaut" officially earned a new meaning. Four "everyday people" returned Saturday from a three-day mission in Earth's orbit, safe and sound.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-astronaut-more-than-one-road-to-space-one-of-those-roads-is-for-you/

[Orionid]

Don’t Count on Billionaires to Get Humanity into Space
September 23, 2021, Lucianne Walkowicz is an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and co-founder of the JustSpace Alliance. [SA]


The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Inspiration4 crew launches from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on September 15, 2021. Credit: Chandan Khanna Getty Images

Far from pioneering wide access to orbit, privately funded spaceflight is geared to perpetuate inequities in space and on Earth

On September 18 the privately funded spaceflight Inspiration4 splashed down safely in the Atlantic after a successful three days orbiting Earth. Amid breathless press coverage of the event, journalists struggled to find the right words—and not just because the spectacle of spaceflight often defies description. Rather, no one seemed sure of what to call the Inspiration4 crew. Onboard Inspiration4 were four people, none of whom are a professional astronaut in the traditional sense. Whether they’re called “amateur astronauts,” “civilian crew,” “space tourists” or just plain old “astronauts,” though, it seemed like everyone agreed on the takeaway message of Inspiration4: the fact that these four individuals had left Earth on a privately funded flight meant that a new era had begun, one in which “anyone” could go to space. But is that really what the flight of Inspiration4 means?

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dont-count-on-billionaires-to-get-humanity-into-space/

[Orionid]

Is Netflix’s Inspiration4 docuseries a new era in Space Age media relations?
by Jeff Foust — October 6, 2021 [SN]


The Inspiration4 crew of (from left) Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux pose with their Crew Dragon spacecraft ahead of their mid-September launch. Credit: Inspiration4

Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space is something of a throwback to the early days of spaceflight when NASA’s Mercury 7 astronauts traded special access for glowing, sanitized coverage.


Anew era of commercial human spaceflight means a new era in media relations — and also, perhaps, a return to the earliest days of the Space Age. When Blue Origin conducted its first crewed New Shepard suborbital flight in July, Jeff Bezos and crewmates performed a handful of television interviews the day before the flight and immediately after landing. But, at a post-flight event billed to attending journalists as a press conference, he took questions from just three reporters before moving on. Virgin Galactic, at its flight earlier that month, did take more questions from reporters during a half-hour press conference after its SpaceShipTwo flight. However, it kept journalists at a distance from other attendees earlier in the morning at Spaceport America, even going as far as having a security guard shoo away any guests who had wandered over to the fence separating them from the media section to willingly chat with reporters.

Source: https://spacenews.com/is-netflixs-inspiration4-docuseries-a-new-era-in-space-age-media-relations/

[kakmar]

Rozmowa z Jaredem Isaacmanem, o locie Inspiration4, w CNBC.
IMHO warto, jest kilka ciekawych rzeczy o lataniu dragonem 2.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/10/12/spacex-inspiration4-commander-jared-isaacman-qa.html

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[Adam.Przybyla]

... przypadek? Nie sadze ... Mysle, ze jesli w przyszlosci spx bedzie uczestnoiczyc w komercjalizacji obslugi zalogowych lotow na LEO,
co wydaje sie mozliwe, po ostatnich zmianach w NASA to ten pan tez sie pewnie pojawi:)
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                      Adam Przybyla
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