First all-civilian space crew blasts off on SpaceX rocket

For the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight, no professional astronaut is aboard an orbit-bound rocket.
Four civilians have made history, after taking off on a fully-automated SpaceX mission without any professional space crew.
The 'Inspiration4' mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, a few minutes after 8pm local time on Wednesday (00:00 GMT Thursday).
Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports.


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[Techridr]

If any of you non-rich people want to go into space, I know a good brownie recipe

[fortunatowenceslao]

Just made Virgin and Bezo’s space platform quite obsolete in such short period with spaceX launching this one.

[chelseagirl]

Why doesn’t the black woman just inspire all people

[bealtainecottage]

Billionaires flying into space whilst I continue to grow and plant trees (over 1, 100 so far) and scrabble around for a little more land to buy so I can continue planting trees...this world is upside down!

[edwardhlavka]

Has there ever been a time when fewer people cared about billionaires going to outer space?

[poppetrurazvan]

Hi. It is no wort to unecessary expose yourself to radiation. Thnk you for this moovie.

[billjohnston]

Space tourism is way more important than solving world hunger, or maybe tackling climate change.

[thewebmaster]

Elon took the credit fo taking civilians into space. BUT IT WAS JARED WHO PAID NOT ELON!!! ALL THE BLESSINGS AND MERIT TO JARED.. MAKE IT KNOWN, ELON IS NO DIFFERENT THAN BEZOS, EXCEPT HE IS PSYCHOPATHIC AND BEZOS IS NOT

[JohnMitch]

What was the carbon foot print of this launch

[fanbutton]

Total Bull. Who wears gollashers and unpressurized suits into space? Looks like they are going fly fishing in some far off stream. Launch at night with 50 edits in the presentation. No one will know the wiser when no one sees any of them climb into the rocket.

[banarkoy]

Sana all makasakay din ng rocket papuntang kalawakan.

[mfarhadi]

Wow this is so amazing the future is finally here now….

[LordAugastus]

2 oligarchs and 2 PR cases, does not make a civilian flight. But what ever.

[wlf]

Quit commercializing space flights. One major thing all of the corporations overlook is the kessler effect which is slowly becoming more evident as every year the amount of space flights increases. Even a small particle as 5-10mm going around at orbital speeds is more than enough to cause havoc on a space craft and continue this on, we would have a barrier of debris prohibiting us from all forms of space flight for probably centuries.

[rockyfjord]

So much for commonweal. Homeless die on streets, but we send four people to space so they
can be weightless for awhile. This happy horseshit is lost on me.

[wasimshaikh]

wow great work. The life of Haley is great example of achieving success fighting odds. Best of luck you all. Safe return.