Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s launch — set for tomorrow — will take four civilians 360 miles from Earth for three days on the first civilian-only space mission.

                By                    Yaёl Bizouati-Kennedy

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SpaceX said it was targeting a five-hour launch on Wednesday, Sept. 15, opening at 8:02 p.m. EDT for launch of the Inspiration4 mission — the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit — aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

“The reason I started SpaceX was to get humanity to Mars. I want to make the dream of space accessible to anyone and ultimately making science fiction not fiction,” Musk said in a Netflix video on Twitter.

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Approximately three days after liftoff, Dragon and the Inspiration4 crew will return to Earth and splash down at one of several possible landing sites off the Florida coast, according to a statement on the SpaceX website.

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Inspiration4 will be commanded by Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments and a jet pilot. He donated the three seats alongside him aboard Dragon to individuals from the general public: Medical Officer Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and pediatric cancer survivor; Mission Specialist Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer; and Mission Pilot Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscientist, entrepreneur and trained pilot.

“While a historic journey awaits us in space, I hope this mission reinforces how far inspiration can take us and the extraordinary achievements it leads to here on Earth,” Isaacman tweeted.

According to SpaceX’s website, the Inspiration4’s mission is to raise $200 million for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and to study the body in space.

“During their multi-day journey in orbit, the Inspiration4 crew will conduct scientific research designed to advance human health on Earth and during future long-duration spaceflights,” the SpaceX website says.

According to a report by BryceTech, $7.6 billion was invested in space companies in 2020, with 9 companies accounting for 80% of space investment in 2020; 3 companies accounting for 60%; and SpaceX accounting for 30%.

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In response, Musk tweeted: “Turns out Besos (sic) retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX.”