Four civilians return from a three-day orbit around the earth, aboard “SpaceX dragon capsule”. The first all civilian space flight took place on Wednesday, September 15, 202, and landed three days later on September 18, 2021. Along with other space flights that may take place or may not that I had found Interesting, But the last one is the best I had found.
The Falcon 9 rocket, is used for most of their missions, which is also reusable the most expensive parts are like the engines. Which makes space travel more accessible or cheaper for civilians. It also is a great transportation rocket. It can deliver over 8000 Pounds of cargo or 4020kg to mars and much more depending on where it would be going. It has over 125 launches, 85 landings, and 67 reflown rockets.
The crew spent most of their time watching movies and calling into SpaceX mission Control, while they were live-streaming the whole thing. The flight had gone smoothly besides a few problems with heat.
The next flight will take place on October 31st, 2021 and it will be a crew of three astronauts, their decision is to the international space station, and their launch site is also the Kennedy Space Center. The ship is the same as the previous flight with the four civilians, there are supposed to be four on this flight as well but the fourth has not been announced yet.
But before both of these two fights, there was a spacewalk of a Russian astronaut Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, it was done on September 9, 2021, on a 7-hour live stream for the replacement of a module. It had been expedition 65, over the past 244 spacewalks since 1998.
SpaceX is trying to make more reusable rockets or better quality rockets that will make space travel to the moon and around the earth can be cheaper and more affordable for the average joe.
SpaceX is now preparing to launch the longest rocket in all of the space flights but it has been a big inconvenience to Texas. The area the rocket is taking off on is causing controversy because of the endangered ocelots and also the vegetation. It is also a highway being blocked off because of the project. But no one can change this, due to it already being approved by the state and its governor.
There is no set time for the rocket to lift off but it is going to be the biggest rocket launch in the whole of space flight. But it is causing lots of problems such as a 35-year-old man who has died after ramming into an 8 wheeler carrying the equipment and they have filed a lawsuit of 20 million dollars for SpaceX but it still seems they won’t be shutting it down shortly. The SpaceX team working on the rocket has all been called menses and has now been getting noise complaints from over 30 households. One family even got so sick of living in the area and had sold her house and now people such as her extended family are mocking her saying she is supporting SpaceX and the problems they cause.
