{"id":23926,"date":"2021-09-15T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T11:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/?p=100036"},"modified":"2021-09-15T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T12:23:05","slug":"watch-spacexs-inspiration4-launch-livestream","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/watch-spacexs-inspiration4-launch-livestream\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX\u2019s Inspiration4 launch: Livestream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ezzy Pearson\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 15 September 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.spacex.com\/&quot;\">SpaceX<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"\/\/inspiration4.com\/&quot;\">Inspiration4<\/a> mission \u2013the first space mission with an all-civilian crew \u2013 is set to launch from NASA\u2019s <a href=\"\/\/www.kennedyspacecenter.com\/&quot;\">Kennedy Space Center<\/a> at 00:02UT on 16 September.<\/p>\n<p>In a watershed moment for civilian spaceflight, the Inspiration4 mission will launch a <a href=\"\/\/www.spacex.com\/vehicles\/dragon\/&quot;\">Crew Dragon<\/a> capsule operated by four astronauts on a three day orbital mission.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is commanded by Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments who is also a qualified pilot. He will be joined by medical officer Hayley Arceneaux from <a href=\"\/\/www.stjude.org\/get-involved\/other-ways\/inspiration4.html&quot;\">St Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital<\/a> and a paediatric cancer survivor; mission specialist Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer; and mission pilot Sian Proctor, a geoscientist and trained pilot.<\/p>\n<p>While in orbit, the crew will be performing several experiments to test the effects of spaceflight on the human body, as well as raising money for St Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Live stream the launch here.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ezzy Pearson Published: Wednesday, 15 September 2021 at 12:00 am SpaceX\u2018s Inspiration4 mission \u2013the first space mission with an all-civilian crew \u2013 is set to launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at 00:02UT on 16 September. In a watershed moment for civilian spaceflight, the Inspiration4 mission will launch a Crew Dragon capsule operated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Ezzy Pearson Published: Wednesday, 15 September 2021 at 12:00 am SpaceX\u2018s Inspiration4 mission \u2013the first space mission with an all-civilian crew \u2013 is set to launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at 00:02UT on 16 September. In a watershed moment for civilian spaceflight, the Inspiration4 mission will launch a Crew Dragon capsule operated by&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/23926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}