Inspiration(al) says world as four civilians return to Earth after three-day trip to heavens
India Today
The Inspiration-4 crew, after successfully navigating around the planet for 90 times, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean in the wee hours on Sunday.
When Lex Fridman, an AI researcher working on autonomous vehicles with the MIT, expressed that he hopes to travel to space one day before he dies, Elon Musk replied "missions like Inspiration-4 help advance spaceflight to enable ultimately anyone to go to orbit & beyond." Splashdown! Welcome back to planet Earth, @Inspiration4x! pic.twitter.com/94yLjMBqWt
SpaceX once again created history, but one that could be broken in the not too distant future. The private aerospace company took four ordinary humans on a three-day trip at an altitude of nearly 590 kilometres out of the planet, farthest since the Apollo missions to the Moon came to a grinding halt. The Inspiration-4 crew, after successfully navigating around the planet for 90 times, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean in the wee hours on Sunday.
