Four crew private mission to orbit
Four amateur astronauts have blasted off from Florida on
their private mission to orbit.
The Inspiration 4 crew,
comprising one billionaire and three "ordinary citizens", rode out of
the Kennedy Space Center in a Dragon capsule provided by the SpaceX rocket
company.
The quartet will spend the next three days circling the
Earth.
It's another milestone in the space tourism market, which is
experiencing a resurgence after a decade's hiatus.
Earlier this summer, billionaire businessmen Sir Richard
Branson and Jeff Bezos went
above Earth's atmosphere in their own space vehicles.
And following this latest mission, there'll be two privateer
visits to the International Space Station (ISS) - one in October, carrying a
Russian movie director and an actress, and a second early in the New Year.
Tech news copied from BBC
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