{"id":436927,"date":"2021-09-20T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436927"},"modified":"2021-09-20T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:45:57","slug":"spacex-capsule-with-worlds-first-all-civilian-orbital-crew-returns-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spacex-capsule-with-worlds-first-all-civilian-orbital-crew-returns-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX capsule with world&#8217;s first all-civilian orbital crew returns safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida&#8217;s coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The successful launch and return of the mission, the latest in a recent string of rocket-powered expeditions bankrolled by their billionaire passengers, marked another milestone in the fledgling industry of commercial astro-tourism, 60 years after the dawn of human spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the second space age,\u201d Todd \u201cLeif\u201d Ericson, mission director for the Inspiration4 venture, told reporters on a conference call after the crew returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida&#8217;s coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit. The successful launch and return of the mission, the latest in a recent string of rocket-powered expeditions bankrolled by their billionaire passengers, marked another milestone in the fledgling industry of commercial astro-tourism, 60 years after the dawn of human spaceflight. \u201cWelcome to the second space age,\u201d Todd \u201cLeif\u201d Ericson, mission director for the Inspiration4 venture, told reporters on a conference call after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}