The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashes down in SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule off the coast of Kennedy Space Center, Florida
(Picture: via REUTERS)Passengers aboard the world’s first all-civilian space flight have posted spectacular footage of the Earth from their trip.
SpaceX’s Inspiration4 touched back down to Earth safely last week after a three-day mission in space.
More onboard images from the all-civilian crew of Inspiration4 have begun to grace social media and the results are spectacular.
The crew included mission commander Jared Isaacman, who financed Insipiration4’s trip, Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant, aerospace data engineer and Air Force veteran Christopher Sembroski and Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscientist.
Images and footage were captured through the spacecraft’s cupola hatch – a transparent dome that was specifically added in lieu of a docking hatch.
The hatch allowed each crew member to view the scenery and capture footage of the Earth from their once-in-a-lifetime vantage point.
Proctor captured the moment the hatch was opened for the first time and the crew members caught their first glimpse of planet Earth.
The moment when me and my amazing crew, @rookisaacman, @ArceneauxHayley, @ChrisSembroski opened up the @SpaceX cupola for the first time, a true highlight of the @inspiration4x mission. Make sure you tune into Countdown on @netflix to see more epic moments from space! @TIME pic.twitter.com/AKmturr9Du
— Dr. Sian “Leo” Proctor (@DrSianProctor) September 21, 2021
Meanwhile, Isaacman posted footage of the stunning view of Earth which also featured a Xenomorph toy from the film Alien he’d brought on his journey.
Cool video from 🐉 cupola w/ xenomorph. In hindsight, it wasn’t worth the trouble of repacking the alien and probably took away from the video… but the view is pretty incredible and my kids will like the 👽
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) September 24, 2021
Shot from: iPhone. pic.twitter.com/OB0KTIlv0y
Arceneaux posted a 360-degree view of Earth from space and called the experience “absolutely life changing”.
The 360 degree view of our beautiful planet from the cupola was absolutely life changing pic.twitter.com/c9xiDGJwg1
— Hayley Arceneaux (@ArceneauxHayley) September 23, 2021
Sembroski captured some great images of the huge country of Australia and also captured some fascinating storm spiral clouds.
Australia @inspiration4x @SpaceX pic.twitter.com/sIPWXOsivN
— Chris “Hanks” Sembroski (@ChrisSembroski) September 22, 2021
Storm spirals are all over the earth @inspiration4x pic.twitter.com/6wt86i5Kan
— Chris “Hanks” Sembroski (@ChrisSembroski) September 23, 2021
