SpaceX Announces Civilian Spaceflight, Potentially by Year End

According to the report, one of the seats is going to be a health-care worker at the hospital, while the other would be raffled off t to raise at least $200 million for St Jude.

The fourth seat will be determined by a competition, which begins this month, among Isaac’s platform’s users. His company plans to air an ad during Sunday’s Super Bowl to shed light on the mission and the opportunity it presents, the report added.

The flight is going to take-off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. However, NASA is not directly involved in organising the journey. Musk expressed, “NASA has been briefed on this and has been supportive.”

The crew, named Inspiration4, will be receiving astronaut training on the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX informed. This is for training the civilians for emergency situations and mission simulations.

According to Musk, the mission could last between two to four days. SpaceX also informed that the flight “will be carefully monitored at…

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