{"id":127734,"date":"2021-09-16T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/watch-civilian-astronauts-depart-earth-on-inspiration4-mission"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:22:17","slug":"watch-civilian-astronauts-depart-earth-on-inspiration4-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/watch-civilian-astronauts-depart-earth-on-inspiration4-mission","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Civilian astronauts depart Earth on Inspiration4 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-civilian-astronauts-depart-earth-on-inspiration4-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe door is open now. The view is pretty incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch four \u201camateur astronauts\u201d and a floating stuffed dog go to space.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The four crew members \u2014 Shift4 Payments founder Jared Isaacman, scientist Sian Proctor, St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital employee Hayley Arceneaux, and aeronautical engineer Chris Sembroski \u2014 are the first all-civilian crew to fly aboard a private vehicle to low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe door is open now. The view is pretty incredible,\u201d said Isaacman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/jared-isaacman-spacex-codex\">a billionaire<\/a> who founded the retail payment processing company Shift4 Payments in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The mission comes two months after competitor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/blue-origin-launch-landing-photos-videos-gifs\">Blue Origin\u2019s historic<\/a> \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/culture\/the-very-bad-optics-of-jeff-bezos-rocket-launch\">not-all-too-popular<\/a> \u2014 suborbital flight that saw four civilians go to space. One of them being Bezos\u2019 brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe door is open now. The view is pretty incredible.\u201d Watch four \u201camateur astronauts\u201d and a floating stuffed dog go to space. The four crew members \u2014 Shift4 Payments founder Jared Isaacman, scientist Sian Proctor, St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital employee Hayley Arceneaux, and aeronautical engineer Chris Sembroski \u2014 are the first all-civilian crew to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127734","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\/127734","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}