Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who have often publicly traded barbs about their rocket companies, looked polite and friendly after the Inspiration 4 launch.
Bezos congratulates Musk SpaceX For the successful launch of a non-professional astronaut crew into orbit.
“Congratulations @ElonMusk and the @SpaceX team on the successful launch of Inspiration4 last night. Another step towards a future where space is accessible to all of us,” the Amazon.com founder tweeted.
Musk also politely replied, “Thank you”.
Yesterday, SpaceX’s first private flight entered Earth orbit, making it the most ambitious leap ever in space tourism.
This was the first time a spacecraft orbited the Earth with an all amateur crew and no professional astronauts.
Elon Musk’s company said the four American space tourists “travelled around Earth 5.5 times, completed their first round of scientific research and enjoyed some food”, Elon Musk’s company said.
Musk tweeted that he had spoken personally with the crew and that “all is well.”
Billionaire Jared Isaacman, medical assistant Hayley Arsinaux, geoscientist Sean Proctor, and aerospace data engineer Chris Sambrowski are orbiting the globe at an altitude of up to 590 kilometers (367 miles).
It is deeper into space than the International Space Station, which orbits 420 kilometers (260 mi), and is the furthest venture from our planet by any astronauts since the 2009 maintenance mission for the Hubble Telescope. .
The mission aims to raise $200 million for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and study the biological effects of deep space on the bodies of astronauts.
However, its main goal is to prove that space is accessible to the general public as private companies such as the United States and SpaceX seek to further commercialize the universe.
The space adventure bookends a summer marked by the battle of billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos to reach the ultimate frontier.
But these flights offered only a few minutes of weightlessness — the Inspire 4 crew would experience instead three full days of orbit, before landing off the coast of Florida on Saturday.
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