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PHOTO OF THE DAY: SpaceX Makes History Again After World’s First All-Civilian Human Spaceflight Enters Orbit

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rocket lifted off at 8:02 p.m. ET

SpaceX has made history once again after successfully launching the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit. The Inspiration4 mission lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft on Wednesday from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image by Steve Wilson in Viera)

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – SpaceX has made history once again after successfully launching the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit. The Inspiration4 mission lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft on Wednesday from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The rocket lifted off at 8:02 p.m. ET.

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.

Approximately three days after liftoff, Dragon and the Inspiration4 crew will splash down at one of several possible landing sites off the Florida coast.