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The Inspiration 4 space mission, the first spaceflight sent by SpaceX with a civilian crew of four, is expected to land in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida on Saturday, ending a three-day flight that is the first in Earth orbit with a fully civilian crew. .
SpaceX, a private Tesla-funded rocket company from Elon Musk, said the capsule, named Dragon, was scheduled to land at sea around 7 p.m. EST, shortly before sunset.
SpaceX prepared and launched the spacecraft from Florida and controlled its flight from its headquarters in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
The flight took off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, one of two reusable SpaceX rockets.
In three hours, the capsule reached an orbital altitude of just over 585 km, higher than the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope and further than any point reached by humans since the end of the NASA’s Apollo lunar exploration program in 1972.
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