SpaceX Inspiration4 launch live: The Falcon 9 rocket lifts off carrying the private crew
The company landed the Falcon 9 rocket booster on the company's ocean droneship, as the Crew Dragon spacecraft continues on toward orbit. This was the third successful landing for this rocket booster.Seven minutes after liftoff: Falcon 9 rocket doing well, booster on its way back to attempt landing
SpaceX developed the Crew Dragon capsule with heavy investment from NASA, which has flown 10 of its professional astronauts on the spacecraft.The company modified the top of Crew Dragon capsule Resilience to add a massive window for the astronauts, replacing the docking hatch that is under the spacecraft's nose cone with the "cupola.
SpaceX added a company logo on the "white room" wall for private astronauts to sign their name, next to the NASA meatball logo that the agency's astronauts sign.Back in the Model Xs to go to the launchpad Hayley Arceneaux, a cancer survivor and now a physician assistant at St. Jude, is the mission's medical officer. She survived osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, at age 10 and will be the first person to fly in space with a prosthetic body part — as a significant portion of her leg is metal. At 29, Arceneaux will also become the youngest American to fly in space.
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