SpaceX Inspiration4 Launch Highlights.
On Wednesday, September 15 at 8:02 p.m. EDT, 00:02 UTC on September 16, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched the Inspiration4 mission – the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit – from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.0:00 Start Introduction
0:50 Tesla Model X
4:20 Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments
5:37 Falcon 9 Rocket Tutorial
9:24 Inspiration4 Orbit Altitude
10:10 Dragon Vehicle 3D
11:10 Launch Window
13:14 Access Arm Disconnect
14:10 Space Station Docking Animation
14:40 Fuelling / Launch Stages
18:10 Liquid Oxygen Loading
20:20 T- 10:50
27:50 Strongback Retract
31:15 Launch
34:09 Stage Two Separation
40:47 Stage 1 Landing
43:28 Zero G
43:52 End Credits
Approximately three days after liftoff, Dragon and the crew of Inspiration4 will splash down at one of several possible landing sites off the Florida coast. Follow Dragon’s journey in the tracker above as the Inspiration4 crew orbits Earth approximately every 90 minutes.
Inspiration4 is commanded by Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments and an accomplished pilot and adventurer. Joining him are Medical Officer Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® and pediatric cancer survivor; Mission Specialist Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer; and Mission Pilot Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscientist, entrepreneur, and trained pilot.
SpaceX launch lights up night sky in Florida