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SpaceX’s Inspiration4 Safely Sees It’s All Civilian Crew Land Safely Back to Earth

The billionaire space race has a new dark horse.

CREDIT: OFFICIAL SPACE X PHOTOS / FLICKR

The first all civilian Space flight safely landed back on earth this Saturday, but what does it all mean for the future of space travel?

There has been a slew of space launches dominating the news cycle over the past few months when an all new space race broke out to see who could send the richest man to space. Beginning with the Virgin Galactic launch of Billionaire Richard Branson, who rocketed 88km into the earth’s atmosphere, just touching the edge of space.

This was a feeble attempt, however, as his measly 88km crushed by earth’s richest man and alleged child eating  Lizard, 200billionaire Jeff Bezos. The Amazon CEO and borderline human rights violator took some time off from mistreating his Amazon Warehouse employees to take to the stars to show ‘Sir’ Richard Branson just how much bigger and more powerful his massive rocket ship was (see fig.1). The Blue Origin launch aboard the New Shepard reached 106km, breaking the atmosphere and flight that saw the richest man to go the furthest out into space. Good for him.

CREDIT: NASA Flight Opportunities / Flickr

This battle across the stars, fought with alarmingly phallic 100 tonne machines has a new horse is the race and it’s no billionaire at all. No this time, to prove that your childhood dreams really do come true, four lucky civilians were been shot up into space and have safely landed back on earth off the coast of Florida on Saturday.

The launch is a part of Spacex’s inspiration4 mission. Spacex, founded by Elon Musk, founder of multi-million dollar electric car company Tesla, is hoping to chart a new course for the future of private space travel. the launch of the quartet of space tourists aboard the Dragon Capsule marks the first time untrained civilians (who don’t happen to be multi-million billion trillionaires) have flown out to space. 

The capsule, dubbed Resilience, took off Wednesday night and reached an unusually high altitude of 363 miles, before making its decent Saturday evening.

The crew: Jared Isaacman, 38, Hayley Arceneaux, 29, Chris Sembroski, 42, and Sian Proctor, 51 splashed back down off the coast of Florida at around 7pm EDT and within an hour were hoisted from the ocean to the deck of the SpaceX recovery vessel. 

It is uncertain where all this space flight may lead. Perhaps one day we shall settle on new untouched planet after the very people that shot us up there have ravaged the earth in turn. Or maybe we’ll just meet alien life. Futile as it all seems it is exciting and interesting to see what this means for the future of humanity. Mr Issacman (one of the crew members aboard the Dragon capsule) described the experience as “That was a heck of a ride for us … we’re just getting started.”

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