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A huge fireball lit up the sky, for nine rocket engines at 8 pm 2 minutes. local time (Thursday 3 hours 2 minutes. Lithuania) in time to start charging.
After approximately 12 minutes, the Dragon capsule detached from the rocket and the crew reached orbit, and the first reuse stage returned to Earth and landed vertically on the barge at sea.
“Few have flown in the past, but now many will fly,” said Jared Isaacman, a 38-year-old billionaire who booked the flight.
The SpaceX spacecraft has risen to an altitude of 575 km, above the International Space Station (ISS).
After three days of orbiting Earth, a crew of four Americans will land in the ocean off the coast of Florida. The fall of the capsule will be slowed by huge parachutes.
Mission Inspiration4 “reminds us of what we can do in partnership with private industry,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson wrote on Twitter before launch.
With commercial capabilities in mind, NASA started a commercial crew program in 2011.
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