How to watch SpaceX launch the Inspiration4 mission with its all-civilian crew
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A tech billionaire and a young cancer survivor are part of the all-civilian crew making history as they blast off aboard a SpaceX rocket Wednesday evening. The Inspiration4 mission, which raised funds to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, will be the first fully commercial, non-government space flight to orbit around the Earth.
Unlike the short up-and-down space flights by Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson earlier this summer, which were measured in minutes, this one is scheduled to last three days. The Crew Dragon capsule will go into orbit at a planned altitude of 360 miles — 100 miles above the International Space Station, higher than anyone has flown since the final shuttle visit to the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009.
The mission is launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a crew of four on board:
