Elon Musk's SpaceX Successfully Launches All-Civilian Crew Into Space, Inspiration 4 Reaches Orbit
Elon Musk's SpaceX Successfully Launches All-Civilian Crew Into Space, Inspiration 4 Reaches Orbit
SpaceX Inspiration4 flight on Wednesday successfully launched a four-member civilian crew into orbit for three days, a new milestone in private space travel.
SpaceX 灵感4周三的飞行成功地将一个四人的民用机组人员送入轨道，为期三天，这是私人太空旅行的一个新里程碑。
What Happened: The flight took off at 8.02 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
发生的事情：飞机于晚上8点02分起飞。ET来自肯尼迪航天中心在……里面弗罗里达登上一艘SpaceX猎鹰9号火箭。
Dragon and the @inspiration4x astronauts are now officially in space! Dragon will conduct two phasing burns to reach its cruising orbit of 575km where the crew will spend the next three days orbiting planet Earth
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 16, 2021
龙与龙@spiriration4x宇航员现在正式进入太空了！“龙”号将进行两次分阶段燃烧，以达到575公里的巡航轨道，在那里，机组人员将在接下来的三天里绕地球运行。
-SpaceX(@SpaceX)2021年9月16日
The capsule carrying members of the mission separated from the booster about 12 minutes into the flight and began traveling to an orbit about 360 miles above Earth.
搭载任务成员的太空舱在飞行约12分钟后与助推器分离，开始向地球上空约360英里的轨道飞行。
Crew send off before they make their way to Launch Complex 39A pic.twitter.com/pa5pXaAdNm
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 15, 2021
机组人员在前往发射综合体39A之前发射升空Pic.twitter.com/pa5pXaAdNm
-SpaceX(@SpaceX)2021年9月15日
The crew inside the capsule comprises Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of e-commerce firm Shift4 Payments Inc (NYSE:FOUR), and three other U.S. citizens who are not professional astronauts but did spend months preparing for the flight.
太空舱内的机组人员包括贾里德·艾萨克曼，电子商务公司创始人兼首席执行官Shift4 Payments Inc.纽约证券交易所代码：四)，以及另外三名美国公民，他们不是专业宇航员，但确实花了几个月的时间为这次飞行做准备。
During the journey, which will take the crew as deep as 360 miles in space, those onboard will conduct scientific and medical research on human health on Earth and during future long-duration space flights, SpaceX said in a statement.
SpaceX在一份声明中表示，在这次旅行中，机组人员将在太空深处360英里(约合360公里)的地方，机上人员将对地球上的人类健康以及未来的长期太空飞行进行科学和医学研究。
The capsule is configured to remain in orbit for about a week if needed, Isaacman had tweeted earlier.
艾萨克曼早些时候在推特上写道，如果需要，太空舱被配置为在轨道上停留约一周。
As configured for this mission, about a week.
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) September 15, 2021
按照这次任务的配置，大约一周。
-贾里德·艾萨克曼(@rookisaacman)2021年9月15日
Why It Matters: SpaceX’s maiden civilian flight goes deeper into space than those of rivals led by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE:SPCE) and Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. The two billionaires flew along with their crews but those flights spent far less time and only made a dash into space and flew back to earth quickly.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who also leads Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), earlier said the reason he started SpaceX was to get humanity to Mars.
SpaceX首席执行官埃隆·马斯克谁也是领头羊特斯拉公司(纳斯达克：特拉斯)，早些时候他说他创办SpaceX的原因是为了把人类带到火星上。
“I want to make the dream of space accessible to anyone and ultimately make science fiction, not fiction,” Musk said in a Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) trailer that documents the mission.
马斯克在一次演讲中说：“我想让每个人都能实现太空之梦，并最终创作出科幻小说，而不是虚构作品。”奈飞(纳斯达克：NFLX)记录任务的预告片。
Price Action: Tesla shares closed 1.52% higher at $755.83 on Wednesday.
价格行动：特斯拉股价周三收高1.52%，报755.83美元。
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