First civilian crew blasts off on SpaceX rocket for groundbreaking trip without pilots
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dailystar.co.ukSpaceX has shared some incredible footage of the Earth from its Dragon spacecraft, which is currently orbiting our planet at a higher altitude than the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope.
It took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the US. The crew includes a cancer survivor, a professor, an artist, along with wealthy tech mogul Jared Isaacman who funded the Inspiration4 mission.
The trip is set to raise around £200 million for cancer treatment and other diseases at a children's hospital in Tennessee. After five months of gruelling training, the crew will spend three days in Earth's orbit conducting scientific experiments in microgravity as they soar around the globe at 17,000 miles per hour.
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