{"id":127729,"date":"2021-09-16T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/spacex-inspiration4-mission-blasts-off-on-history-making-journey-to-orbit"},"modified":"2021-09-16T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:24:29","slug":"spacex-inspiration4-mission-blasts-off-on-history-making-journey-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/spacex-inspiration4-mission-blasts-off-on-history-making-journey-to-orbit","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Inspiration4 mission blasts off on history-making journey to orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8o4VeLWIYG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Space has seen a number of high-profile, incredibly rich tourists in the past few months. The so-called \u201cbillionaire space race\u201d kicked off in July, when Richard Branson rode his Virgin Galactic space plane to the upper layers of Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Shortly after, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos rode his rocket a little further. Whether they made it to \u201cspace,\u201d though, has been hotly debated. Most space watchers agree these short suborbital trips aren\u2019t quite the same as getting into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no debate about the Inspiration4 mission. This flight takes the crew of four higher than Bezos or Branson and is different from those flights in key ways, even if it was bankrolled by another billionaire in Isaacman.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/spacex-will-send-a-crew-of-everyday-people-into-orbit-on-dragon\/\">SpaceX announced the mission<\/a> in February, Isaacman bought up the entire flight and donated three of the Crew Dragon seats to \u201cindividuals from the general public.\u201d He offered up two seats to St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, handpicking Arceneaux, a childhood cancer survivor who now works as a physician\u2019s assistant at the hospital and acts as the medical officer on Inspiration4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space has seen a number of high-profile, incredibly rich tourists in the past few months. The so-called \u201cbillionaire space race\u201d kicked off in July, when Richard Branson rode his Virgin Galactic space plane to the upper layers of Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Shortly after, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos rode his rocket a little further. Whether they made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}