Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown

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BREAKING: Four space tourists have ended their trailblazing trip to orbit with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. The all-amateur crew in the SpaceX capsule was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut aboard.

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In this image taken from video a SpaceX capsule carrying four people splashes down in the Atlantic off the Florida coast, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut.

“It was a heck of a ride for us ... just getting started,” replied trip sponsor Jared Isaacman, referring to more private flights on the horizon. Within a few minutes, a pair of SpaceX boats pulled up alongside the bobbing capsule. Once on the recovery ship, the four were due to have medical checks before going to Kennedy Space Center by helicopter for a reunion with their families

Joining him on the flight were Hayley Arceneaux, 29, a St. Jude physician assistant who was treated at the Memphis, Tennessee hospital nearly two decades ago for bone cancer, and contest winners Chris Sembroski, 42, a data engineer in Everett, Washington, and Sian Proctor, 51, a community college educator, scientist and artist from Tempe, Arizona.

They also took calls from Tom Cruise, interested in his own SpaceX flight to the space station for filming, and the rock band U2′s Bono.

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Not that such could have saved them.

I wonder what the carbon footprint of that trip was? GretaThunberg

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What does that tell ya....

Yo, check if they got powers

Space really? Or space laboratory 🤫

It's your money and you are entitled to spend it how you want. I just wonder how many people you could feed with the money you just spent. 1000 or 2000 or even 5000 people. Here is a term for you. Cultural Evolution. Are you familiar with it. Obviously not.

Yeah. Meh.

One small step for … tourism? One giant leap for … expensive vacation stays? It just doesn’t have, I dunno, the same ring. The same panache? These kids. With their rock and roll and their rubber soled shoes.

gladstein Tragedy will no be avoided..life is no guarantee.. few

If something goes wrong, who has to rescue them?

Send flat earthers up next, maximize the increase of human average IQ.

Can we get a better name for these brave people besides 'space tourist?'

jackmjenkins Wankery

Wow. We circled the earth. Didn’t John Glenn do that like in 1962? We’ve come a long way, baby

I believe Chuck Yeager referred to this as “Spam in a Can”.

I swear from the cropped Twitter image I thought this was a red-eyed robotic great white breaking surface with ineffective harpoons in its head

Modern Vikings🚀

This is more successful than Biden's Afghan withdrawal!!

rip

Glad they got back safe but let’s be honest. This was nothing but a rich man checking something off his bucket list. The idea that people will be able to afford such rides in the future is the same odds of Trump not telling another lie.

Is Elon offering any more free trips? Of was it just for this publicity stunt?

Where is William H Macy?

Don't need much skill in today's age of automation and when things can be controlled remotely 🤭 See how they handle a comms error and have to manually control the vehicle 😉

Who paid for the pick up?

But there was an ALMOST astronaut on board.

Aren't the taxpayers subsidizing this as Elon Musk pays few taxes?

Wait, so training to become an astronaut was a public scam?

F*****g pointless.

'... without a professional astronaut aboard..' ----------- Was that the lead in the sales brochure?

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