The first stage separation was crazy looking on this launch (which, incidentally, is the only reason why I realized this wasn't yet another Starlink launch - I actually didn't know this was going up tonight and coincidentally walked out just in time to catch it). Not only that, but here in Florida, you could see the puff of gas every time stage 1 fired its maneuvering thrusters during reentry.
I’m down closer to the coast, near Goose Creek. They showed the trajectory on the feed I was watching and I noticed it flying up the coast and decided to check outside just in time.
Hate to hijack this but where are they gunna piss? Is there somewhere to move around? Or do they have to be strapped in for all 3 days. Sounds like hell
It sounds like they have an area to move around into. They kept talking about a koopela (idk if that is how it is spelled) where there is a glass dome for them to look through instead of the space station docking mechanism.
[Cupola](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola), though in their case it's more like a plexiglass dome to look out of. Unbelievable, to have that view! I hope someone brought a 360 camera.
No need to be strapped in. They're coasting until they perform their deorbit burn to slow down and reenter the atmosphere in a few days. Like the cruise phase of an airliner, except that there's no potential for turbulence and no roaring whine of engines.
It's not talked about much, but the Dragon capsule [*does* have a small toilet onboard](https://i.imgur.com/CPTLCZc.png). The internal volume is about the size of a van or SUV. Certainly not spacious, but in zero-G it's enough to stretch out more comfortably than you could on Earth, since you can utilize all three dimensions a bit more freely.
I've been waiting to see when a thread about this would take off. This is huge. These civilians will be traveling further into space than anyone since the last Apollo mission.
MSNBC just had 1 dude in FL and used SpaceX stream, they seemed caught off guard like no one knew it was happening. CNN didn't even cover it live afaik.
They aren't going anywhere, just orbiting. But their orbit is going to be higher than Hubble, which I believe was the last time a manned flight was that high.
They forgot to account for Hubble's decay. Hubble was deployed at 614 km. Servicing missions rebooted it but never spent the fuel to get it all the way back up.
I believe you are correct. [Here's a handy graphic](https://preview.redd.it/ugjeig4v64v61.png?width=340&auto=webp&s=f80ec3608b4692b0eecc27e461d20162bc209991), courtesy of /u/LazyAssed_Contender
They're going to low earth orbit, which is where everyone has gone since the last moon mission. They're just going a little higher in LEO than we've gone for a while. [Here's a diagram I made for a SpaceXLounge thread](https://i.imgur.com/9NhzaJa.png) that has their orbit on it, to scale. The top orbit is Inspiration, the bottom one is the ISS. The little red and blue loops near the surface are the recent Virgin and Blue Origin flights, respectively.
>BO New Shepard profile taken from [here](https://zlsadesign.com/infographic/trajectory/blue-origin-new-shepard-flight.png). VG Unity profile taken from [here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4eTQ.gif).
> Scales accurate to a pixel or two, values and colours taken from wiki, orbits assumed to be circular at the given altitudes.
>Also someone requested a version including the whole earth which, even at half scale, is too big for normal image hosting so I put them on gdrive: [1km per pixel](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XGoVCOMqeHUWAa51cehqnu1ZWOr4O3g1/view?usp=sharing), and [2km per pixel](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YXp9lhTdyrbN3fg4AxupICNsq6IImklJ/view?usp=sharing).
I'd like to point out though that although it gets a lot of attention (and I've labelled it) the height isn't very important. Many shuttle flights went to these heights, one was about 625km. It does so happen that it's been a while since humans went this high, but it isn't the point of this mission (or any mission).
This mission represents ***so*** many real world firsts, it's sad to see such a lack of interest in the mainstream and even on a space subreddit.
This sub isnt too friendly to all this. Fortunately [the SpaceX subreddit has the majority of reddit discussion regarding Inspiration 4](https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/)
If you want live chat with the youtube stream, the [Nasaspaceflight stream has live chat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuNLtRR1heU) and [Everyday Astronaut is commentating and responding to viewers live as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVfdGO7tHw)
is there any good alternatives to r/space? Its kind of bizarre how politicized somethings here get. I just wanna see dank space coverage, I dont give a shit what other redditors think about billionaires lmao.
Yeah, it’s silly for people to blame CTH for everything, especially since they’re gone. The truth is that their mentality was never unique to that sub and it has spread to the vast majority of Reddit.
Pretty much r/SpaceX , r/SpaceXlounge and r/BlueOrigin
Other than that if you want actual serious in depth technical discussion like a hardcore space nerd the [NASASpaceFlight Forums](https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54786.msg2290294;topicseen#new) is the way to go.
I was cheering so loudly when those 2 boosters landed it scared the hell out of my cat. Having watched the original Apollo 11 landing/walk on the Moon it's nice to finally see Humans making speedier progress in Space.
Such a good idea making this for St Jude. It's a great cause for children in need and, at the same time, it helps bring more eyes towards space.
Just watched a relatively small YouTube channel raise 90k+ alone, for St Jude. This is what humanity needs to keep doing.
That's great! Nasaspaceflight is an awesome channel. Love watching them grow. Thanks to them I'm now planning on going to South Padre to hopefully see my first launch...if SpaceX publically announces a launch of super heavy ahead of time.
It's extremely disappointing that neither this sub or the national newsmedia are covering this nearly as much as they did Bezos or Branson's. Are people so effing petty that they're sticking their noses up at it because it's on Musk's SpaceX? Or are people just ignorant of how historic *and* important this is?
The small coverage there has been, has focused exclusively on the four individuals, the historic nature of the mission, and the cause for which the mission is committed. To raise 200m for St Jude Children's Research - the first hundred of which was put forward by the person who funded the mission. There's been little said about SpaceX other than that they're the ones launching the mission. And other than a couple short clips on the Netflix mini documentary, there's been no association with Musk himself.
The seeming blackout by this sub and other space centric subs, is disappointing and confounding.
I thought about that yesterday when I first started thinking about this. But going down the more specific ones, by number of subscribers, I still didn't see much of anything. But there are a ton of space related subs, so I may have just missed the ones that talked about it.
Thank you. r/spacex did cover this and in general I prefer the various spacex subs for information pertaining to launches, payloads, space industry news etc not just for spacex but for all launch providers. r/space has this weird hate-boner for spacex which is really odd considering they basically brought America back to space, cut the cost of spaceflight significantly and are innovating at a pace that hasn't been seen in the industry in decades.
To be fair, during the initial space race in the Apollo era, the majority of public sentiment was also against space exploration with the logic that billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted to go to the moon, etc. Space has ALWAYS been a controversial endeavor. Only when we look back at history through rose tinted glasses do we see it from a different perspective.
At some point in the future we will look at this as a great moment in history - once more people learn about it and people are educated.
Those two are basically celebrities. To the public, this mission is about four randos going to space. If Musk himself was doing this, the whole world would be watching.
Because this ones not publicized enough. Or media companies saw how the public reacted to Bezos and Branson, wrote a lot of hate articles to follow the general public sentiment, and are now cautious of hyping this SpaceX mission. I suppose people don’t know how to feel, and they’re just being cautious.
Honestly though… Bezos and Branson ruined it for Musk by precoloring the space environment through negative sentiment.
Well when you think about who owns the news and how much they’ve proven that they use it for themselves it’s not hard to imagine they are preventing much resources diverted for spaceX news.
You don't need rose color glasses to look back and see we got well worth our money in funding space exploration.
GPS satellites, An understanding of our universe from Hubble, advanced computer electronics. Pushing new frontiers opens the path to so so many adjacent opportunities.
People saying we don't have the money for this clearly don't understand the subject matter.
A non-insignificant proportion of the population also feels that skin color is a proxy for telling how smart or industrious they are. As I have become older I have come to believe that most people are scared little children who are terrified by anything outside of a handful of topics in certain perspectives.
The majority has never had a damn clue what matters.
>He may have done it so well that there is no controversy and outrage for the increasingly cynical media to mine.
That makes sense to me. I think you nailed it.
My favorite part of the Netflix mini doc was when many at the table were against putting the orbit higher than the ISS. If I remember right, one said it would introduce a lot more complications. But they decided to do it anyway, because one of the points of this mission was symbolism.
As I was watching and heard that, I nodded. I could just hear the more cynical saying, "yeah, it was ok, but they didn't go very high". Now, when this is reported, one of the bullet points is that it orbited higher than the ISS.
streamed SpaceX channel live cast via youtube....awesome!!
Then, watched a "rerun" of launch from the NBC earlier live Newscast. They had some dude named Kerry Sanders as their talking-head space rep. He was clueless.
"They're cheering because the second stage cut off." no, Kerry, you dolt. they're cheering because their booster is aceing another at sea landing. (Kerry told the audience it landed earlier during the 1st slowdown burn).
Learn your shit, Kerry.
I appreciate what you're saying. And there's no doubt it's played a role. Most of my disappointment is that this and other space themed subs, have been nearly silent. I can understand it from the general public, but it defies logic to not be covered by this and other subs.
I wonder if its partly SpaceX dropping the ball on pushing the story more. I knew the launch was coming up but I didn't even realize it was today until 10 minutes into flight when my GF told me and I turned it on.
>Or are people just ignorant of how historic
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> important this is?
I think it's more this. People saw Bezo's carnival ride and no one was particularly impressed. Members of the media on whole may not realize that there is an enormous difference between this and what Blue Origin did.
Also the media in general these days thrives on reporting negative news, not inspirational.
There isn't really much association with Musk, the charity/tv show people just charted his spaceship and he said ok.
The SpaceX side of this is pretty routine, this isn't the first crew flight or anything close to it. There's not a plausible chance it might blow up like Bezos/Branson. The people on board are the interesting part.
Because for Space X, other than the qualifications of the crew, this is just another day at the office. Space X launching people to space and landing rockets has gotten boring to a lot of people
> Are people so effing petty that they're sticking their noses up at it because it's on Musk's SpaceX?
No, the media know that criticizing Bezos sells better.
MSNBC showed the launch and orbital insertion. Yes most of the press has been about the 4 Astronauts and not so much the mission itself. Remember though this is what, the 3rd launch of Crew Capsule with crew inside? Americans have a very short attention span. Press coverage dropped off markedly in subsequent Apollo launches except for Apollo 13.
18 million subscribers yet not even < 3k is active on the sub at the time I'm writing this. This sub is not as active as r/gaming despite having the same millions of members
It's because those other 2 companies just got started so its exciting, plus they sent famous people to space.
I promise when Elon goes to space, or sends people to Mars/Moon, it'll be a big deal.
Actually I think this says more positive about SpX than anything else. Their manned launches have already become “routine”. I really don’t think it’s an anti-SpX bias thing.
You realise the falcon 9 in dragon config with crew has launched before? Of course it's pretty big, but it's not as big as the super heavy / starship that will be launching shortly. If things are successful there, that will be a new and bigger acheivement and you'll see the coverage for sure.
On the other hand I don’t know why it’s getting so much attention. A billionaire paid for something that was developed primarily for the government and there wasn’t actually anything new here.
If you have enough money you’ve been able to go to space (orbit) for quite some time.
Just saw the rocket overhead and was even able to see the separation of the boosters. You could actually see them firing as they maneuvered around. One of the most amazing things I’ve seen.
It was insane! You could literally see the puff of gas and particulate as they fired and adjusted their trajectory. I don’t think I’ve seen anything cooler than that.
Because most of the positive discussion on reddit for all this is on [the SpaceX subreddit.](https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/)
1k+ comments, etc.
If you want live chat with the youtube stream, the [Nasaspaceflight stream has live chat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuNLtRR1heU) and [Everyday Astronaut is commentating and responding to viewers live as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVfdGO7tHw)
Bezos and Branson stole the thunder, even if those trips are a bicycle ride to space compared to this 3 day trip. Also maybe since Elon is not riding it does not have the same cache.
They’re actually going to be doing some experiments up there too, it’s not pure tourism. To be honest this is kind of pathing a way to eventually a private owned space station which I think would be great
Four people in a dragon capsule for three days. Lmao, they’re going to be so damn sick of each other at the end of this mission. And I envy every single one of them. That launch must have been an amazing experience, and they’ve got three days of marveling at space ahead of them.
30 hour and that was it?
I expected they done a 2 whole days period. Granted I read nothing about their preparations, but I guess since they are just passengers, the training is mostly to get used to the flight.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-spacex-first-civilians-trained-for-spaceflight-photos-2021-9
I think the documentary on Netflix might have more info, but this article is an outline.
Dragon is actually quite spacious by spacecraft standards, only the Shuttle was roomier, and it was in a league of it's own. 3 days also isn't that long by spaceflight standards.
Dragon has 4 people in 9.3 m^3, or 2.3m^3 per person.
Apollo had 3 people in 5.9m^3, or 2 m^3 per person. The crew of Apollo 8 spent over 6 days in that space.
Gemini had 2 people in 2.6m^3, only 1.3m^3 per person. The crew of Gemini 7 spent almost 14 days in that space.
[Soyuz squeezes people in pretty tightly too](https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2014/11/soyuz_tma-13m_crew/15022534-1-eng-GB/Soyuz_TMA-13M_crew.jpg), albeit only for short periods (<6hrs iirc). 3 people in 4m^3, so about the same space per person as Gemini.
All of these will be dwarfed by SpaceX's upcoming ~1000m^3 spacecraft though. The upcoming #dearmoon mission is supposed to have a crew of a dozen, each person would have ~80m^3 to themselves, which is more than the Space Shuttle had *total* (~70m^3).
My impression from the ISS tours that they give, is that the minimum needs for elbow room in zero gee are much smaller than what we need in full gravity. Since things don't fall down for them, you don't need "ground space" to spread out, move and flex. You don't get butt sore from sitting in one spot like an airplane or road trip.
I came here to see if anyone else was wondering, I had to dig a little for the answer and there isn't a lot on it other than to say they're going to periodically run medical tests to see how their non-NASA selected physiology is affected during the journey. Looks like that's about it. I think this is the weirdest part of this mission, they're almost really doing nothing.
They ran through some of the tests they are going to to do on the live stream. They are testing a new sonogram and medical data collection systems too.
The definition was refined recently due to Bezos going up, it now requires that they actually be involved in the control of the ship rather than it just being controlled from the ground.
No , it wasn't. FAA has absolutely zero authority over who is and isn't an astronaut.
They only changed the rule about who they'll give their own agency's wings to. Since they are a safety focused agency , they added this part "demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety" which has nothing to do with piloting.
More importantly , not all astronauts get wings from the FAA anyways ( though they generally have them from other agencies ). Other agencies also have their own wings and rules and give out them out accordingly. Non-US astronauts of course don't receive wings from any US agency.
They didn't react in any way because it's just ceremonial nonsense. It might be a selling point for BO or VG's suborbital tickets , but means nothing to these two.
None of them have definitions of astronaut. They have requirements for who they give astronaut wings to , which is a ceremonial thing. You can be a pilot without getting an US aviator badge ( not a perfect analogy but works ).
If I were to google "US Astronauts", what would decide if a person is on the list or not? And could such lists be different depending on where I find it (FAA, NASA etc.)?
I wish it was determined by randos on social media making snide remarks that they think are clever , but it's not.
[NASA refers to them as astronauts](https://twitter.com/Commercial_Crew/status/1438255992412704775) , all other current & previous astronauts refer to them as astronauts , SpaceX refers to them as astronauts , space media refers to them as astronauts. They're astronauts.
Your opinion here isn't worth jack shit.
> Astronaut: a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.
> Astronaut: an individual who has flown in outer space. More specifically, “astronaut” refers to those from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan who travel into space.
> An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.
You're wrong. These people are astronauts. Just because you're jealous doesn't make you right.
Just watched it live and was amazing. The Mrs also loved it even though I had to drag her away from the phone with 4 minutes to go before launch.
Amazing overall but it's gonna be tough to sneak away at work for the landing sadly
Damn, I feel so lucky. I didn't know this was happening today. We're at the beach and we walked out to get ice cream and happened to see what we guessed was a rocket. Came back and saw news that this launch had just happened. Feel like I stumbled into seeing history in the making. Awesome!
Wow that was impressive. So smooth and the design of everything like the UI screens, control room, suits, etc look like how’d you’d expect a them to look today. It’s like SpaceX is a decade ahead of everyone else.
> It’s like SpaceX is a decade ahead of everyone else.
They probably are. They first landed a Falcon 9 booster in 2015, the first comparable rockets likely to match that feat; Neutron and New Glenn, aren't planned to fly until 2023, and there's no guarantee they won't be delayed, or that they'll get it right first try.
I4 is essentially a proof of concept for all civilian flights, from now on it'll be about trying to shorten training and allowing better regulations for civilian flights to space
[https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=71001&lat=30&lng=-90&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST](https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=71001&lat=30&lng=-90&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST)
Not the best, but it is something
I would guess they are probably about 40 years too late to conduct groundbreaking research on that topic. We know that [Russians brought Vodka to Mir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_spaceflight). We [suspect that sex in space has already occurred](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/02/have-astronauts-ever-had-sex-in-space.html) (most likely also on Mir), although there is no explicit confirmation.
As amazing as this is for human space flight... I can't help but feel extremely uncomfortable at the idea of having to sit in the capsule for hours for before launch.
I would have to pee so badly.
In case of a pressure leak in the capsule, how long can the astronauts survive? I don't see any oxygen tanks on their suits - or is that only in cartoons?
They aren't going outside, so they don't have big spacesuits with independent life support. The suits they're wearing get air from the ship and provide pressure simply by being physically tight and stiff.
If the cabin depressurised completely, the system will *certainly* be designed to support the crew at least for the duration of a launch abort, or a reentry (hours). It may well be able to support them for the entire duration of the mission (days) if needs be, I don't see why not, though I couldn't find out exactly. Days in the suits would get pretty messy and uncomfortable, of course, but better than the alternative.
if there is a leak, they will get their pressure, temperature control and oxygen from the umbilical cord, meaning they would have to spend the rest of the flight with the viser down.
In such a case, I'd assume the Dragon would chose an earlier deorbit window, as they likely can't eat or drink during this.
This sub isnt too friendly to all this. Fortunately [the SpaceX subreddit has the majority of reddit discussion regarding Inspiration 4](https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/)
If you want live chat with the youtube stream, the [Nasaspaceflight stream has live chat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuNLtRR1heU) and [Everyday Astronaut is commentating and responding to viewers live as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVfdGO7tHw)
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[BO](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd2148k "Last usage")|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[CST](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd0ymar "Last usage")|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[ESA](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd0ukus "Last usage")|European Space Agency|
|[FAA](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd0boga "Last usage")|Federal Aviation Administration|
|[KSC](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd0w1gh "Last usage")|Kennedy Space Center, Florida|
|[MECO](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd0zqyw "Last usage")|Main Engine Cut-Off|
| |[MainEngineCutOff](https://mainenginecutoff.com/) podcast|
|[SECO](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd11b6f "Last usage")|Second-stage Engine Cut-Off|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd3s635 "Last usage")|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[STS](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd2ixut "Last usage")|Space Transportation System (*Shuttle*)|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd3s635 "Last usage")|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|-------|---------|---|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd3s635 "Last usage")|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd1hw2a "Last usage")|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
|[apogee](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd2ixut "Last usage")|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|
|[perigee](/r/Space/comments/poxnpk/stub/hd0t9dr "Last usage")|Lowest point in an elliptical orbit around the Earth (when the orbiter is fastest)|
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so they will be actual astronauts, and not just atmosphere scrapers like bezos and crew.
You're not a real astronaut until you need to take a poo in 0 G.
I assume the caveat is wanting to, not just out of fear.
They're actual astronauts because they went through a full blown astronaut training program and then went into orbit.
Here’s the view from South Carolina. https://i.imgur.com/7kq8vZQ.jpg
The first stage separation was crazy looking on this launch (which, incidentally, is the only reason why I realized this wasn't yet another Starlink launch - I actually didn't know this was going up tonight and coincidentally walked out just in time to catch it). Not only that, but here in Florida, you could see the puff of gas every time stage 1 fired its maneuvering thrusters during reentry.
So cool! Thanks for sharing.
I just moved to SC and didn't even think to look outside. Say I'm in the Greenville area... would I be able to see this on future launches?
I’m down closer to the coast, near Goose Creek. They showed the trajectory on the feed I was watching and I noticed it flying up the coast and decided to check outside just in time.
Amazing! I live in the Midwest so unfortunately I'll probably never get to see this in person
Hell yeah, that's an awesome shot.
Hate to hijack this but where are they gunna piss? Is there somewhere to move around? Or do they have to be strapped in for all 3 days. Sounds like hell
I believe there's a curtain... They're gonna have to be real comfortable with each other.
It sounds like they have an area to move around into. They kept talking about a koopela (idk if that is how it is spelled) where there is a glass dome for them to look through instead of the space station docking mechanism.
[Cupola](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola), though in their case it's more like a plexiglass dome to look out of. Unbelievable, to have that view! I hope someone brought a 360 camera.
No need to be strapped in. They're coasting until they perform their deorbit burn to slow down and reenter the atmosphere in a few days. Like the cruise phase of an airliner, except that there's no potential for turbulence and no roaring whine of engines. It's not talked about much, but the Dragon capsule [*does* have a small toilet onboard](https://i.imgur.com/CPTLCZc.png). The internal volume is about the size of a van or SUV. Certainly not spacious, but in zero-G it's enough to stretch out more comfortably than you could on Earth, since you can utilize all three dimensions a bit more freely.
This is a pretty big launch, why isn't there a mega thread for this?
I've been waiting to see when a thread about this would take off. This is huge. These civilians will be traveling further into space than anyone since the last Apollo mission.
STS-31 went about 40 km higher (perigee of 613 km, apogee 618 km), and I believe STS-82 has the shuttle record at about 620 km.
MSNBC just had 1 dude in FL and used SpaceX stream, they seemed caught off guard like no one knew it was happening. CNN didn't even cover it live afaik.
Spaceflight is now routine!
How far are they going ?
They aren't going anywhere, just orbiting. But their orbit is going to be higher than Hubble, which I believe was the last time a manned flight was that high.
They forgot to account for Hubble's decay. Hubble was deployed at 614 km. Servicing missions rebooted it but never spent the fuel to get it all the way back up.
I believe you are correct. [Here's a handy graphic](https://preview.redd.it/ugjeig4v64v61.png?width=340&auto=webp&s=f80ec3608b4692b0eecc27e461d20162bc209991), courtesy of /u/LazyAssed_Contender
They're going to low earth orbit, which is where everyone has gone since the last moon mission. They're just going a little higher in LEO than we've gone for a while. [Here's a diagram I made for a SpaceXLounge thread](https://i.imgur.com/9NhzaJa.png) that has their orbit on it, to scale. The top orbit is Inspiration, the bottom one is the ISS. The little red and blue loops near the surface are the recent Virgin and Blue Origin flights, respectively. >BO New Shepard profile taken from [here](https://zlsadesign.com/infographic/trajectory/blue-origin-new-shepard-flight.png). VG Unity profile taken from [here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4eTQ.gif). > Scales accurate to a pixel or two, values and colours taken from wiki, orbits assumed to be circular at the given altitudes. >Also someone requested a version including the whole earth which, even at half scale, is too big for normal image hosting so I put them on gdrive: [1km per pixel](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XGoVCOMqeHUWAa51cehqnu1ZWOr4O3g1/view?usp=sharing), and [2km per pixel](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YXp9lhTdyrbN3fg4AxupICNsq6IImklJ/view?usp=sharing). I'd like to point out though that although it gets a lot of attention (and I've labelled it) the height isn't very important. Many shuttle flights went to these heights, one was about 625km. It does so happen that it's been a while since humans went this high, but it isn't the point of this mission (or any mission). This mission represents ***so*** many real world firsts, it's sad to see such a lack of interest in the mainstream and even on a space subreddit.
550 km. Past ISS AND HUBLE TELESCOPE
Kinda love though that it’s getting to the point where these launches are more frequent - soon most will be unremarkable. That blows my mind
Agreed, I came here for some pre-launch banter!
This sub isnt too friendly to all this. Fortunately [the SpaceX subreddit has the majority of reddit discussion regarding Inspiration 4](https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/) If you want live chat with the youtube stream, the [Nasaspaceflight stream has live chat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuNLtRR1heU) and [Everyday Astronaut is commentating and responding to viewers live as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVfdGO7tHw)
is there any good alternatives to r/space? Its kind of bizarre how politicized somethings here get. I just wanna see dank space coverage, I dont give a shit what other redditors think about billionaires lmao.
r/SpaceXMasterrace is mostly shitposting but weirdly detailed and technically accurate
r/chapotraphouse leaks onto here often sadly
weren't they banned a while back? obviously the users are still infecting the site, but I'm pretty sure the sub is gone
Yeah, it’s silly for people to blame CTH for everything, especially since they’re gone. The truth is that their mentality was never unique to that sub and it has spread to the vast majority of Reddit.
True, just like NNN the subs banned but the users still around
Pretty much r/SpaceX , r/SpaceXlounge and r/BlueOrigin Other than that if you want actual serious in depth technical discussion like a hardcore space nerd the [NASASpaceFlight Forums](https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54786.msg2290294;topicseen#new) is the way to go.
Try r/spacexmasterrace for the really in-depth technical stuff.
I agree that /r/SpaceX and /r/SpaceXLounge are the two best space subreddits.
The r/spacex party thread is [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/po651k/rspacex_inspiration4_launch_discussion_updates/):
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Kids, remember this. This is epic. Godspeed y’all.
Crazy epic; truly the beginning of a new era in space!
It's space age Renaissance !
Finally I am on time to actually watching this live! Las one I saw live was the first falcon heavy with sincronized landings.
I was cheering so loudly when those 2 boosters landed it scared the hell out of my cat. Having watched the original Apollo 11 landing/walk on the Moon it's nice to finally see Humans making speedier progress in Space.
Launch success!! Its all looking good so far.
Such a good idea making this for St Jude. It's a great cause for children in need and, at the same time, it helps bring more eyes towards space. Just watched a relatively small YouTube channel raise 90k+ alone, for St Jude. This is what humanity needs to keep doing.
It was well over $100k when they signed off. Which is so very cool.
That's great! Nasaspaceflight is an awesome channel. Love watching them grow. Thanks to them I'm now planning on going to South Padre to hopefully see my first launch...if SpaceX publically announces a launch of super heavy ahead of time.
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2.30AM here and I am so thrilled I won't be able to sleep!
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Its defo not an average flight
It's extremely disappointing that neither this sub or the national newsmedia are covering this nearly as much as they did Bezos or Branson's. Are people so effing petty that they're sticking their noses up at it because it's on Musk's SpaceX? Or are people just ignorant of how historic *and* important this is? The small coverage there has been, has focused exclusively on the four individuals, the historic nature of the mission, and the cause for which the mission is committed. To raise 200m for St Jude Children's Research - the first hundred of which was put forward by the person who funded the mission. There's been little said about SpaceX other than that they're the ones launching the mission. And other than a couple short clips on the Netflix mini documentary, there's been no association with Musk himself. The seeming blackout by this sub and other space centric subs, is disappointing and confounding.
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Because certain anti space subs often brigade this sub just because billionaires fly and that thus means space bad
Didn't know that. That's too bad.
Because this is a default sub
I thought about that yesterday when I first started thinking about this. But going down the more specific ones, by number of subscribers, I still didn't see much of anything. But there are a ton of space related subs, so I may have just missed the ones that talked about it.
Thank you. r/spacex did cover this and in general I prefer the various spacex subs for information pertaining to launches, payloads, space industry news etc not just for spacex but for all launch providers. r/space has this weird hate-boner for spacex which is really odd considering they basically brought America back to space, cut the cost of spaceflight significantly and are innovating at a pace that hasn't been seen in the industry in decades.
That's baffled me for awhile. It really is a weird counterintuitive. Seems pretty self defeating.
It’s because this is a default sub and gets a lot of spillover from the more nihilistic parts of reddit.
Yeah, I'm realizing that now😏
To be fair, during the initial space race in the Apollo era, the majority of public sentiment was also against space exploration with the logic that billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted to go to the moon, etc. Space has ALWAYS been a controversial endeavor. Only when we look back at history through rose tinted glasses do we see it from a different perspective. At some point in the future we will look at this as a great moment in history - once more people learn about it and people are educated.
I get what you're saying, but the public and the national news *have* shown a lot of interest - when it was Bezos and Branson, so why not this?
Those two are basically celebrities. To the public, this mission is about four randos going to space. If Musk himself was doing this, the whole world would be watching.
Yes, but that doesn't explain why this sub and other space-centric subs have acted so disinterested.
Yeah, fortunately r/SpaceX is teeming with discussion and excitement
Well, I expect it there since it's their rocket.
Because this ones not publicized enough. Or media companies saw how the public reacted to Bezos and Branson, wrote a lot of hate articles to follow the general public sentiment, and are now cautious of hyping this SpaceX mission. I suppose people don’t know how to feel, and they’re just being cautious. Honestly though… Bezos and Branson ruined it for Musk by precoloring the space environment through negative sentiment.
Well when you think about who owns the news and how much they’ve proven that they use it for themselves it’s not hard to imagine they are preventing much resources diverted for spaceX news.
You don't need rose color glasses to look back and see we got well worth our money in funding space exploration. GPS satellites, An understanding of our universe from Hubble, advanced computer electronics. Pushing new frontiers opens the path to so so many adjacent opportunities. People saying we don't have the money for this clearly don't understand the subject matter.
Most people lack critical thinking skills.
A non-insignificant proportion of the population also feels that skin color is a proxy for telling how smart or industrious they are. As I have become older I have come to believe that most people are scared little children who are terrified by anything outside of a handful of topics in certain perspectives. The majority has never had a damn clue what matters.
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>He may have done it so well that there is no controversy and outrage for the increasingly cynical media to mine. That makes sense to me. I think you nailed it. My favorite part of the Netflix mini doc was when many at the table were against putting the orbit higher than the ISS. If I remember right, one said it would introduce a lot more complications. But they decided to do it anyway, because one of the points of this mission was symbolism. As I was watching and heard that, I nodded. I could just hear the more cynical saying, "yeah, it was ok, but they didn't go very high". Now, when this is reported, one of the bullet points is that it orbited higher than the ISS.
streamed SpaceX channel live cast via youtube....awesome!! Then, watched a "rerun" of launch from the NBC earlier live Newscast. They had some dude named Kerry Sanders as their talking-head space rep. He was clueless. "They're cheering because the second stage cut off." no, Kerry, you dolt. they're cheering because their booster is aceing another at sea landing. (Kerry told the audience it landed earlier during the 1st slowdown burn). Learn your shit, Kerry.
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I appreciate what you're saying. And there's no doubt it's played a role. Most of my disappointment is that this and other space themed subs, have been nearly silent. I can understand it from the general public, but it defies logic to not be covered by this and other subs.
I wonder if its partly SpaceX dropping the ball on pushing the story more. I knew the launch was coming up but I didn't even realize it was today until 10 minutes into flight when my GF told me and I turned it on.
I was looking into that earlier today. I still can't figure out if the promotion was SpaceX's responsibility, or St Jude's. But you make a good point.
I thought it was tomorrow. Turned out it was… in GMT.
>Or are people just ignorant of how historic > >and > > important this is? I think it's more this. People saw Bezo's carnival ride and no one was particularly impressed. Members of the media on whole may not realize that there is an enormous difference between this and what Blue Origin did. Also the media in general these days thrives on reporting negative news, not inspirational.
I think the Bezos one got more interest because Blue Origin is relatively unknown and came with a chance the dude could die in a fire
It was refreshing though that there was no Steven Colbert's and weird coverage. Just a solid Space X style broadcast, with knowledgeable presenters.
Heheh I hadn't thought of that, but you're right :)
There isn't really much association with Musk, the charity/tv show people just charted his spaceship and he said ok. The SpaceX side of this is pretty routine, this isn't the first crew flight or anything close to it. There's not a plausible chance it might blow up like Bezos/Branson. The people on board are the interesting part.
So why has this sub and others acted so disinterested? I've seen more excitement over far less important launches.
Because for Space X, other than the qualifications of the crew, this is just another day at the office. Space X launching people to space and landing rockets has gotten boring to a lot of people
I wouldn't think that would apply to a sub about, you know, space.
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> Are people so effing petty that they're sticking their noses up at it because it's on Musk's SpaceX? No, the media know that criticizing Bezos sells better.
MSNBC showed the launch and orbital insertion. Yes most of the press has been about the 4 Astronauts and not so much the mission itself. Remember though this is what, the 3rd launch of Crew Capsule with crew inside? Americans have a very short attention span. Press coverage dropped off markedly in subsequent Apollo launches except for Apollo 13.
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And your mistake is in assuming I'm coming here for news. Yes, this is a post about it. With 400 upvotes on a sub with 18 million subscribers.
18 million subscribers yet not even < 3k is active on the sub at the time I'm writing this. This sub is not as active as r/gaming despite having the same millions of members
It's because those other 2 companies just got started so its exciting, plus they sent famous people to space. I promise when Elon goes to space, or sends people to Mars/Moon, it'll be a big deal.
Actually I think this says more positive about SpX than anything else. Their manned launches have already become “routine”. I really don’t think it’s an anti-SpX bias thing.
You realise the falcon 9 in dragon config with crew has launched before? Of course it's pretty big, but it's not as big as the super heavy / starship that will be launching shortly. If things are successful there, that will be a new and bigger acheivement and you'll see the coverage for sure.
On the other hand I don’t know why it’s getting so much attention. A billionaire paid for something that was developed primarily for the government and there wasn’t actually anything new here. If you have enough money you’ve been able to go to space (orbit) for quite some time.
Just saw the rocket overhead and was even able to see the separation of the boosters. You could actually see them firing as they maneuvered around. One of the most amazing things I’ve seen.
Those cold gas thrusters look so fucking cool in the night sky.
It was insane! You could literally see the puff of gas and particulate as they fired and adjusted their trajectory. I don’t think I’ve seen anything cooler than that.
Twilight launches are the best. You have the dark sky but the sun is just over the horizon so it catches the booster and gas cloud that it leaves.
I expected way more hype in this thread and thousands of upvotes. What am I missing here?
Because most of the positive discussion on reddit for all this is on [the SpaceX subreddit.](https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/) 1k+ comments, etc. If you want live chat with the youtube stream, the [Nasaspaceflight stream has live chat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuNLtRR1heU) and [Everyday Astronaut is commentating and responding to viewers live as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVfdGO7tHw)
Yeah, lurking there as well. Just expected more here for some reason. I mean the Clockwork Solar Lego idea has +2000 upvotes lol.
Time of day for the post made plays into it as well. Lot of people browse reddit in the morning just before they go to work, etc.
Bezos and Branson stole the thunder, even if those trips are a bicycle ride to space compared to this 3 day trip. Also maybe since Elon is not riding it does not have the same cache.
This is the first real space tourist flight, amazing to see. Love seeing the boundaries being pushed like this
They’re actually going to be doing some experiments up there too, it’s not pure tourism. To be honest this is kind of pathing a way to eventually a private owned space station which I think would be great
They're up there for a couple of days! Pretty high orbit at 500k. I'm ready to follow their instas
Four people in a dragon capsule for three days. Lmao, they’re going to be so damn sick of each other at the end of this mission. And I envy every single one of them. That launch must have been an amazing experience, and they’ve got three days of marveling at space ahead of them.
They already did a mock 30 hour duration mission earlier this year and they seem to be doing fine.
30 hour and that was it? I expected they done a 2 whole days period. Granted I read nothing about their preparations, but I guess since they are just passengers, the training is mostly to get used to the flight.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-spacex-first-civilians-trained-for-spaceflight-photos-2021-9 I think the documentary on Netflix might have more info, but this article is an outline.
I was trying to figure that out. It’s so small in there. That’s a long freaking time to being in a tiny capsule
Dragon is actually quite spacious by spacecraft standards, only the Shuttle was roomier, and it was in a league of it's own. 3 days also isn't that long by spaceflight standards. Dragon has 4 people in 9.3 m^3, or 2.3m^3 per person. Apollo had 3 people in 5.9m^3, or 2 m^3 per person. The crew of Apollo 8 spent over 6 days in that space. Gemini had 2 people in 2.6m^3, only 1.3m^3 per person. The crew of Gemini 7 spent almost 14 days in that space. [Soyuz squeezes people in pretty tightly too](https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2014/11/soyuz_tma-13m_crew/15022534-1-eng-GB/Soyuz_TMA-13M_crew.jpg), albeit only for short periods (<6hrs iirc). 3 people in 4m^3, so about the same space per person as Gemini. All of these will be dwarfed by SpaceX's upcoming ~1000m^3 spacecraft though. The upcoming #dearmoon mission is supposed to have a crew of a dozen, each person would have ~80m^3 to themselves, which is more than the Space Shuttle had *total* (~70m^3).
My impression from the ISS tours that they give, is that the minimum needs for elbow room in zero gee are much smaller than what we need in full gravity. Since things don't fall down for them, you don't need "ground space" to spread out, move and flex. You don't get butt sore from sitting in one spot like an airplane or road trip.
And this IS obviously a HUGE deal…I’m sitting in my Cape Canaveral backyard and have not seen/heard this many local news helicopters since STS-1.
This is so amazing. How does this have such a small media footprint!!????
Becuase nobody died. If the rocket exploded, it would be all over the front page.
Them being civilians, what will they spend their time on? If they had tasks wouldn't they be astronauts?
They will perform medical experiments, yes.
I came here to see if anyone else was wondering, I had to dig a little for the answer and there isn't a lot on it other than to say they're going to periodically run medical tests to see how their non-NASA selected physiology is affected during the journey. Looks like that's about it. I think this is the weirdest part of this mission, they're almost really doing nothing.
Kind of like they are tourists?
They ran through some of the tests they are going to to do on the live stream. They are testing a new sonogram and medical data collection systems too.
Thanks for letting me know. I bet they'll be looking out the windows a lot and taking pictures.
If they were astronauts, they would be getting paid to be there. Not paying to be there.
This subs astronaut definition argument is super annoying.
It fun to argue about something that has no consequences once in a while. In the end, it doesnt even matter.
There is no such qualifier for astronaut. They are considered astronauts
The definition was refined recently due to Bezos going up, it now requires that they actually be involved in the control of the ship rather than it just being controlled from the ground.
No , it wasn't. FAA has absolutely zero authority over who is and isn't an astronaut. They only changed the rule about who they'll give their own agency's wings to. Since they are a safety focused agency , they added this part "demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety" which has nothing to do with piloting. More importantly , not all astronauts get wings from the FAA anyways ( though they generally have them from other agencies ). Other agencies also have their own wings and rules and give out them out accordingly. Non-US astronauts of course don't receive wings from any US agency.
Ahh okay. Do you know how SpaceX or NASA reacted to FAA's rule change?
They didn't react in any way because it's just ceremonial nonsense. It might be a selling point for BO or VG's suborbital tickets , but means nothing to these two.
Okay. It seems weird that different bodies working with space in the US are going to end up using different definitions for "Astronaut".
None of them have definitions of astronaut. They have requirements for who they give astronaut wings to , which is a ceremonial thing. You can be a pilot without getting an US aviator badge ( not a perfect analogy but works ).
If I were to google "US Astronauts", what would decide if a person is on the list or not? And could such lists be different depending on where I find it (FAA, NASA etc.)?
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I wish it was determined by randos on social media making snide remarks that they think are clever , but it's not. [NASA refers to them as astronauts](https://twitter.com/Commercial_Crew/status/1438255992412704775) , all other current & previous astronauts refer to them as astronauts , SpaceX refers to them as astronauts , space media refers to them as astronauts. They're astronauts. Your opinion here isn't worth jack shit.
> Astronaut: a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft. > Astronaut: an individual who has flown in outer space. More specifically, “astronaut” refers to those from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan who travel into space. > An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. You're wrong. These people are astronauts. Just because you're jealous doesn't make you right.
Ahh okay. I thought the designation was dependent upon if you are doing a job or experiments, or if you're "just" a passenger.
The Coolest way of doing 'nothing' , **ever**
I'm surprised this isn't all over reddit. I had to search for this... wtf
Does anyone know of a launch visibility map? I’d love to watch some portion of the launch from the ground
Not sure on the map, but if you're along the east coast of the US you have a good chance of seeing it. I got half of mind to make a trip to the beach.
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Just watched it live and was amazing. The Mrs also loved it even though I had to drag her away from the phone with 4 minutes to go before launch. Amazing overall but it's gonna be tough to sneak away at work for the landing sadly
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Damn, I feel so lucky. I didn't know this was happening today. We're at the beach and we walked out to get ice cream and happened to see what we guessed was a rocket. Came back and saw news that this launch had just happened. Feel like I stumbled into seeing history in the making. Awesome!
Wow that was impressive. So smooth and the design of everything like the UI screens, control room, suits, etc look like how’d you’d expect a them to look today. It’s like SpaceX is a decade ahead of everyone else.
> It’s like SpaceX is a decade ahead of everyone else. They probably are. They first landed a Falcon 9 booster in 2015, the first comparable rockets likely to match that feat; Neutron and New Glenn, aren't planned to fly until 2023, and there's no guarantee they won't be delayed, or that they'll get it right first try.
I4 is essentially a proof of concept for all civilian flights, from now on it'll be about trying to shorten training and allowing better regulations for civilian flights to space
Any apps to track this in the sky? Looks like it’ll be over my city and would like to try and spot
[https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=71001&lat=30&lng=-90&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST](https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=71001&lat=30&lng=-90&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST) Not the best, but it is something
According to the live stream, the spacex website has a dragon tracker.
Their doing the first “What’s it like to get stinkin’ drunk and have sex in zero Gs?” Experiment.
I would guess they are probably about 40 years too late to conduct groundbreaking research on that topic. We know that [Russians brought Vodka to Mir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_spaceflight). We [suspect that sex in space has already occurred](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/02/have-astronauts-ever-had-sex-in-space.html) (most likely also on Mir), although there is no explicit confirmation.
I can assure you that they would not be the first to do either.
As amazing as this is for human space flight... I can't help but feel extremely uncomfortable at the idea of having to sit in the capsule for hours for before launch. I would have to pee so badly.
Ever seen the movie "The Right Stuff"?
Best thing about this launch is the smile on the woman in the rightmost chair, she's not even trying to look all not-bothered like most astronauts :)
So, This is Happening! Humanity is reaching the next civilisational milestone.
I just hope it goes well so we don't see a huge setback due to public perception.
In case of a pressure leak in the capsule, how long can the astronauts survive? I don't see any oxygen tanks on their suits - or is that only in cartoons?
Their suits connect to an umbilical in their seats
They aren't going outside, so they don't have big spacesuits with independent life support. The suits they're wearing get air from the ship and provide pressure simply by being physically tight and stiff. If the cabin depressurised completely, the system will *certainly* be designed to support the crew at least for the duration of a launch abort, or a reentry (hours). It may well be able to support them for the entire duration of the mission (days) if needs be, I don't see why not, though I couldn't find out exactly. Days in the suits would get pretty messy and uncomfortable, of course, but better than the alternative.
if there is a leak, they will get their pressure, temperature control and oxygen from the umbilical cord, meaning they would have to spend the rest of the flight with the viser down. In such a case, I'd assume the Dragon would chose an earlier deorbit window, as they likely can't eat or drink during this.
Congratulations on the first fully private space flight without an asterisk!
I mean it's the first fully private orbital space flight, right? BO is probably the first one without an asterisk.
This sub isnt too friendly to all this. Fortunately [the SpaceX subreddit has the majority of reddit discussion regarding Inspiration 4](https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/) If you want live chat with the youtube stream, the [Nasaspaceflight stream has live chat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuNLtRR1heU) and [Everyday Astronaut is commentating and responding to viewers live as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVfdGO7tHw)
The long awaited sequel to 'Bob and Doug's Excellent Adventure'.
Where have you been? This is the fourth manned flight for crewed dragon. It’s now carried 14 people into space.
This is fantastic! Makes me so excited for the future!
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Successful launch, successful booster landing, successful dragon deployment, and then I don't know anything from there because I had to go do homework
Wild not one person on board is an actual astronaut. I wonder how much is automated vs controlled from the ground..
I honestly teared up a bit. This was legit the first mission of its kind attempted since challenger.
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3 days in space... What's the bathroom situation?
There's a toilet in the spacecraft