SpaceX has made history yet again, but this time it may be surpassed in the not-too-distant future. The commercial aerospace firm carried four regular humans on a three-day journey to the moon at an altitude of over 590 kilometres, the highest since the Apollo missions came to a halt. The Inspiration-4 crew splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of sunday after successfully travelling around the world 90 times.


With the mission's successful launch, execution, and landing, SpaceX has officially entered the booming space tourism business, an up-and-coming industry controlled by the world's wealthy and billionaires.
However, SpaceX's Dragon is expected to easily win the competition, not just because of its long-range flying capabilities, but also because of its unique feature of being entirely autonomous. Unlike Branson's Virgin Galactic, which requires a pilot to manoeuvre the capsule in flight, the capsule was operated remotely from the ground during flight.
As Inspiration-4's mission comes to a close, the four newly minted astronauts believe that this will not be the last trip for regular people and that many more will follow, giving them a view of the stars.
Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX on a shoestring budget and a dread of failure. However, SpaceX is currently leading the orbital race, with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and richard Branson's Virgin Galactic vying for second place. Both corporate tycoons recently sailed their own spacecraft to a disputed space border. Space tourism may become a key source of revenue for space fairing businesses as they work to improve their capabilities to access the Moon's orbit, then to Mars and beyond.

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Kailas Ashwin Sathish

19/09/2021 09:16 AM