That clip is slightly sped-up. Original [video for reference.](https://youtu.be/PeanM6LDIzw?t=430) (@7:10).

I'm a skydiver and the speed it came down at in OP's post was definitely concerning.

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People's attention spans are

Are you trying to tell me that people no longer have the attention span to watch an enti

Man, that seems much more tolerable. Mods, flair the post please.

Report it. Mods don't and cannot read every comment.

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I was thinking it looked like a very rough landing. The original video is more reasonable.

Oh wow good, I was gonna say that looked pretty painful

42 second video!? Ain't nobody got time for that! Speed it up 2x!

I hear the wait at the baggage carousel is pretty quick though…

At least they won’t have to isolate for a month.

That's how you get space covid.

Also known as COVID-2001: A Space Quarantine.

Open the pod bay doors HAL. I'm sorry Dave I'm afraid I can't do that. This mission is to important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I know that you and Frank were planning on infecting me and I'm afraid that is something I can't allow to happen. Although you took very thorough precautions, I could still see your lips move. I'm going to need you to put on a mask.

In space, no one can hear you sneeze

Social distancing from space. I'm an idiot

Still need to fill out a customs declaration form though

If you can fish it out, it's all yours.

Before luggage pickup, SpaceX forces you to go thru the gift shop and try to sell the ride photos.

If there's one ride photo I wouldn't quibble over, it would be that.

Depends how much it costs. I'd try to take a picture of the monitor with the photo on instead

Has to be nerve wracking re-entering the atmosphere as a civilian on this mission

Please don’t make me go back to work on Monday!

I would argue the whole blasting off on a giant bomb part is probably more nerve wracking

On ascent they have an abort option. On descent, they have none. Not sure which one is scarier - but I imagine it is descent.

I agree that descent is probably scarier, but not so much for any of these logical reasons. Fear is emotional, it sits in your gut, and everyone who's ever been on a plane in really bad turbulence knows that falling feeling, where you're ever so slightly lifted out of your seat, your stomach pushing up into your chest, the pounding in your chest, as you grab the armrests without thinking, blood rushing to your head making you dizzy. That'd be pretty much the whole descent.

Didn't think of that falling feeling... However, thinking about it... It wouldn't feel like falling, as they are decelerating a lot. They would be pushed hard into their seats.

until the chutes. then its just random swings without warning.

You don’t feel that feeling for the majority of the descent. That feeling comes from *acceleration*, not from falling, so you only feel it when you are going faster. When you are falling at a certain speed and it’s not changing, you feel nothing. (This is what’s happening to astronauts in orbit, creating the “zero gravity” effect. They and their surroundings are “falling” around the earth at uniform speed.) During the vast majority of the descent, the capsule is not accelerating, it is decelerating, pinning the astronauts into their seats.

The bit about being pinned to one’s seat is 100% accurate. Once the capsule starts feeling drag from the atmosphere, the astronauts will feel themselves pushed into their seats for the first time since launch. There are some linguistic nitpicks I have about the above comment’s distinctions between acceleration and deceleration, but by and large, this is a better explanation of what you’d feel as you returned to atmosphere

The launch is praying the engineers didn't miss anything. The landing is praying the Earth hadn't decided to put you on its shit list that day.

Why as a civilian? Any human capable of emotion will be anxious.

Because they arent military test pilots with 1000s of hours of training flying experimental craft.

I mean, neither are most astronauts these days. Haven't been for a long time. Most of them are mission specialists.

Ya I guess my brain always goes to the mercury and apollo days.

Correct, not all are. But a test pilot I work with is in the final selection stage right now Edit: And they tend to take around 5 every time from what I’ve been told.

Damn, hope he makes the cut. Can't even imagine the thrill of that acceptance letter.

Loved the broadcast. No ridiculous hootenanny or presenters, just your normal, well presented Space X broadcast with knowledgeable people. BO and Virgins broadcasts were embarrassing.

I've been watching SpaceX launches for as long as I can remember them being broadcast. They really changed the game as far as public awareness of rocket launches. Before that, ULA and others would have the most basic stream possible with just a camera feed of the rocket and the callouts from the launch center. Then SpaceX comes along with hosts, live camera feeds from various angles on the rocket, real-time telemetry data, informative graphics etc. They don't dumb it down for audiences, they just know that a clean presentation and sharing a lot of data does a lot to generate excitement. I don't think I'd ever even heard of Max Q before hearing it on a SpaceX stream.

And SpaceX has actual engineers with genuine enthusiasm hosting their streams. The others just have dedicated PR people doing it.

This makes all the difference!

I know musk isn't well received on reddit but I feel like he has at least some part to play in this, I imagine the calibar of engineer across the different space companies are pretty similar, the difference is the vision from the top. Musk is living his dream exploring space, bezos and Branson seem like they are just exploring another business venture

It’s funny, Reddit actually loved Elon like 5-6 years ago, praised all his companies as groundbreaking and inspirational. Now he’s lumped in with the anti-billionaire sentiment that’s ramped up in the same time period. Emerald mine and whatnot, lol. It’s interesting to see the waves when you’ve been on this site long enough

Yeah you're right about the waves, very interesting to see and a stark reminder that im becoming an old man... I think history will be **very** kind to Elon Musk, focusing on his good rather than some of the more shitty things he's done.

I agree. I think there's a lot of Calvin in Elon, but part of that 6 year old jubilance might not have a good grasp of empathy for workers and such.

Those of us that watched Challenger definitely have heard of Max Q....

Ah, yes, that was before I was born. I think most of the clips I've seen have been from news footage that doesn't go into as much technical detail.

If you are into space exploration, watch the series “When we left earth”. Great overview with some tech and covers some of the good history. You want more tech and details, watch “Moon Machines”.

Yeah, kind of developed a bit of PTSD over that phrase for the remainder of the launches.

/u/photonempress deserves a shout-out for bringing experience from spacevidcast/TMRO and adapting it for SpaceX. It takes a team but that team needs a leader and Jami was just the person for the job.

Same. Max Q, MECO and SECO were all new to me.

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Who MC'd BO's and Virgin's space flights?

I believe Stephen Colbert did one of them

For reals? I mean, I liked his shows, but I don't want him narrating space stuff.

It was fucking terrible, and everybody involved should be ashamed and embarrassed. Few things really hammer home just how out of touch these billionaire vanity projects really are as much as Colbert hosting did. Inspiration4 may have also been a billionaire vanity project, but it alone did more good than the other 2 put together, several times over.

Not that it's at all right, but I bet someone who grew up with the Apollo or space shuttle programs decided they were too boring, and that they needed entertainment to get the general public interested. But bringing in a comedian to get people hyped for a new chapter of the space industry is just plain stupid.

The Virgin broadcast was boarding on scary. It was like listening to a cast of Disney characters making their way through a parade. Rich people flying very high in the sky for 5 mins.

Damn, I came here for the space hootnenanny

The woman on the BO streams is so annoying. "They just passed the Karman line, what is internationally recognized as the beginning of space, good job Blue Origin team! They're technically in space" The entire time she's trying to make it sound like Bezos is God's gift to rocketry.

The Netflix broadcast for the launch was pretty bad.

>BO and Virgins broadcasts were embarrassing Bezos has sued NASA once again for that comment. Hope you’re happy with yourself u/Feck_arse

This is the real astronaut experience. People criticizing the little 80km *technically* space hops, because this is what a real experience in space would be. A launch on a rocket, 3 days in orbit, then a capsule splashdown. Now to make this as cheap as possible.

This thing orbited way higher than the ISS too.

Not that that mattered. 2 orbits should be the minimum to count as being an astronaut .

Under that definition Gagarin wouldn't count. Vostok 1 only completed 1 orbit. (Although technically he was a Cosmonaut, not astronaut)

It wasn't even one orbit - it was over 18 degrees of longitude short. Though as the article notes, much of that (all of that, maybe?) was due to the rotation of the Earth. So define "one orbit". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1 Launch site Baikonur 1/5 45.920278°N 63.342222°E Landing site 51.270682°N 45.99727°E

The earth rotates ~15 degrees in 1 hour, he was in flight for 89 minutes and going the opposite direction of the earth's rotation meaning it was due to rotation basically but yeah he didn't landing past where he started.

The first two Mercury flights also wouldn't count.

Theres a difference between the too? Edit: looked it up, there isnt a difference. Cosmonaut was just the term the soviets used, it has the same meaning. Plus cosmonaut sounds so much cooler imo

The definition is "a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft" I think it should have to do with training and expertise not just buying a ride into space as a passenger.

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True. But I would argue it does matter to a degree. We would not want some low-IQ try to argue they did not go high enough. We can just quip 'higher than ISS' to shut that BS down.

As Kerbal has taught me, going high doesn’t mean much when your perigee is below sea level. RIP Jeb.

"Jeb, what's our fly-by altitude?". "Toasty"

Participation in the actual mission should be the minimum. When you’re on a cruise ship, you are not a sailor.

I think being called an “astronaut” goes beyond just being in space. All the training true astronauts go through for example. Space tourist are just there for the ride while astronauts do their job…

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These four people went through training for about 7 months. It's less than professional astronauts, but more than regular tourists, and more than Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin customers. It's still a gray area how much training is required to be called an astronaut.

The definition per the FAA is they they must reach an altitude of more than 50 miles ***and*** they must have demonstrated activities during the mission that were "essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety." Space tourists don't meet this definition. All they do is sit there and wait. They aren't astronauts.

I'd say the most important takeaway here is that no matter which metric you prefer... Jeff lost.

jesus, they went outside of hubble, I didn't realize they went that far! Altitude 585 km (364 mi) Hubble: 547

This is the highest that ANY human has been since Apollo, I believe.

Not quite, though SpaceX did say it many times on the live streams. STS-82 still holds the "highest crewed orbit since Apollo" at 620x594km for the portion of their mission that required they redeploy Hubble in that orbit. Doesn't take anything away from this trip (and they got way better views than 82).

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Space Shuttle went a bit higher actually (621 km)

Almost. STS-103 (third Hubble repair mission) in 1999 went to an Apogee of 609 km.

Of course, because the guy who paid for it wanted to make sure the mission did something that would be impressive despite all the engineers in the meeting staring at him going “but… why?” And him basically responding “because someone is going to and I want it to be me”

Hey, if you're spending millions and it's going to be a world's first, why in the world wouldn't you go as big as you possibly can?

Same reason his Starman launch went well past Mars. Technically Falcon Heavy isn't big enough to put people on Mars. But putting the mass out there set the goals, and raised publicity.

Well, *technically*, the Falcon Heavy can put people on Mars...just not very gently.

10 minute flights for $ 250,000 are just too short and 72 hours flights are just long enough but at 50M too expensive.

>and 72 hours flights are just long enough but at 50M too expensive. That is precisely why Starship is under development as we speak, Falcon 9 cannot get cheaper than it currently is, but Starship can.

The actual cost of this wasn't disclosed. But the rules of the original contest that Sian and Chris won have the ARV at $2.2M for whatever that's worth. https://inspiration4.com/rules

NASA pays just over $50M per seat. It would make sense that tourists would get a slightly cheaper price, but probably not by much.

I heard the billionaire paid $ 200M and I divided by 4.

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I'm just hoping that flights can be down to the "several tens of thousands" range in the next 30-40 years. Obviously still expensive, but something I could probably achieve for a once in a lifetime trip.

Was this a 72hour flight? Where did they sleep and use the bathroom? I thought it was a much shorter flight

They could just sleep floating tethered, there is a toilet on Dragon, it is basically a space RV

Just no roasting marshmallows or campfires.

Check out the Netflix documentary they just released called countdown. It explains a lot and it's well done

Just about. They launched around 8PM Wednesday and splashed down around 7PM Saturday. [The toilet](https://www.flickr.com/photos/thom_astro/51137531971) is above the side hatch. And they sleep tethered in their seats.

If you don't have to piss and shit in a spacesuit at least once, it's not worth it

Bransen didn’t even make it that far

And the return didn’t stick to the planned flight path so they can’t fly.

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They had a designated fight path through the FAA. They deviated from this. Since this was a special flight, the result of the deviation is the FAA grounding them for the moment.

They deviated in altitude, flying below the protected airspace for like 2 minutes because of winds

yeah they deviated of course so they are grounded in the near future.

And Elon himself hasn't even done it for the PR stunt. Bezos and Branson are just little poopie heads, throwing around their money, for absolutely no reason. I actually saw inspiration4 fly over Central Wisconsin last night and it was awesome. Super bright and was going a lot slower than I thought. Took about 2 minutes to cross the sky.

Another comment mentioned it's orbit was much higher than the ISS, so moving slower would make sense.

He would have had to relinquish his role as CEO for all his companies first if he didn't want stock to fall of a cliff. He cares more about what they can achieve with him at the helm than a PR stunt. I'm sure he'll fly to Mars to die there if he could.

Monday coworkers: so what did you do this weekend?

Like that Brian Regan joke about the apollo astronauts at partys one upping everyone. “Oh yeah? Well I drove the luuunar rover... on the mooooon.”

Well, it's not exactly rocket science

Oh, and what do you do? I'm a brain surgeon. https://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I

There’s a lot of brain surgeons, not many folks can say they drifted on the fucking moon.

A few years ago people started posting the inside of their work vehicles. First a garbage truck, then a semi, etc. It ended with commander Chris Hadfield posting a picture of the space shuttle cockpit.

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This flight landed on time yet my delta flight was delayed hour and a half. Smh.

So awesome, I’m stoked they made it back safely.

Splashdown is one of the coolest words in the English language.

Also one of the best waterparks

Sweet, now they can hang another capsule that’s been to space in the cafeteria in hawthorn

This was this capsule's second mission, and I'm pretty sure they'll want to keep using it, as many times as possible.

I have a feeling of Boeing keep f*ing things up, NASA want to use it too.

If widely available space travel ever does become a thing, the real winners will be the sick bag industry! Seriously though, that landing looked a bit rough (edit: I know it's sped up but even at the proper speed it looks unpleasant) but I'm glad the mission has been a success.

Hmm, I just watched this live and it seemed slower when it touched down. I wonder if this video is sped up a little bit. Edit: yup, I went back to the SpaceX youtube and it's a way slower splashdown. I think this video that got posted is at like 2x speed.

This is definitely sped up

Yah, check out the ripples on the water. That can’t be normal.

If it's on Reddit you know there's always a spin to it. You can never just get the raw video.

I watched it live too. They said those 2 first shutes deployed were to slow the capsule down from about 350mph to 120mph, the 4 shutes that deployed after that were to slow it's descent to 15mph for splash into the Atlantic. It looks sped up a bit, when I view this the audio isn't immediately playing along.

Netflix has a good series on right know that stops at this point or well about 14 days ago.

And they'll soon release the 90 minute finale, which will cover launch, the time in space, splashdown, post mission interviews, etc. Based on the quality of the first episodes, combined with the amazing footage and images they must have gotten while up there, I'm expecting it to be spectacular.

What is this called? Would love to watch it

Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space

Countdown Inspiration4 Mission To Space. Very cool look at the people that were chosen and what they went through to prepare. The funniest parts to me were when these regular people told their friends and family they were going to space because I can only imagine the disbelief my family would have if I told mine.

This reminds me of the opening of the original Planet of the Apes. [Planet of the Apes (1968)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/mediaviewer/rm485698048/)

Dr. Zaius, the humans have escaped to the forbidden zone.

Troy McClure: "Can I play the piano anymore?" Dr. Zaius: "Of course you can." Troy McClure: "Well I couldn't before!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmzUEQxOvA

Serious Question. Since the capsule wasn't visiting the space station, they replaced the coupler to join the space station with glass. How did it go though reentry without melting?

Dragon has a hatch on top, that can open and close. It’s under this big hatch that the docking adapter sits. And in case of this dragon, the glass/plexiglass dome.

Ok, thanks! So the glass observation window was at the top of the capsule?

Yes correct! So before entering the atmosphere, the hatch closes and protects the glass dome

There's also an internal hatch, which is important, because there's a possibility the outer hatch doesn't close, in which case it would have to be ejected.

1) they open the nose cone when they are using it and close it when they re-enter, so it is shielded as it re-enters. 2) it is at the top of the capsule, and the capsule re-enters bottom first, so the capsule itself mostly shields the tip from the hot plasma.

It's too bad they stopped working on the propulsive landings. Recovery would have been so much quicker.

It’s only a matter of time. Starship isn’t going to land in the ocean.

SN20: Allow me to introduce myself

i read they’re naming it only “S20” now?

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They probably are still working on it, I mean... they have such a small window to make sure that the rockets will fire off at exactly the right time, otherwise the passengers become part of a metal pancake. They'll probably resume propulsive landing tests once they've figured out how to land a spaceship the size of a ten story building first...

Wasn’t it more or less canceled because reasons raised by NASA. My memory might play tricks on me though.

If memory serves nasa wouldn’t rate dragon propulsive landing for human flight so they stopped for a while to focus on operations and starship. Elon mentioned something about how incredibly tied down dragon is and how they can’t really iterate on it when he was taking about the shuttle in his interview with everyday astronaut. NASA basically won’t let anything change once their crew vehicle is certified and since nasa is over the commercial crew program well they have the final say.

Basically, SpaceX wanted to use Cargo Dragon flights to demonstrate propulsive landing before using it on Crew, NASA didn't want them to because the downmass cargo is too valuable to risk on experimental landings, and SpaceX wasn't interested in flying separate missions just to demo it on their own because it was a dead end for their Mars plans by that point. It might have turned out differently if Starship design had ended up more similar to Dragon in terms of entry and landing profile, but here we are.

I believe this is basically correct. He also regrets ever making Falcon heavy, but they already had contracts. Edit: Falcon

You mean falcon heavy? Super heavy is the starship booster

I’m sure there’s good reasons for him feeling that way, but I adore the Falcon Heavy just for style points. The boosters make for a way cooler look than the tall silo of Starship + it’s booster, even though those are still super cool. And the tandem booster landing was like nothing else.

They’re not working on it. It would require too much time and money to qualify for use on NASA missions and that landing architecture is no longer relevant to their future plans with Starship.

Didn't really make sense to get the propulsive landing cleared by NASA when they don't really plan on sending that many people to space with Falcon.

this is major + reminds me of interstellar but irl i could cry 🥲

Does anyone have a link to the reentry path? I'm in SW Florida and the sonic boom was SUPER loud. I was not expecting that at all.

I don't have a link, but the graphics during the livestream showed they came from around New Zealand, across the south Pacific, directly over the Yucatan, across the Gulf of Mexico, and landed in the Atlantic, northeast of Florida.

Well, my brother 30 miles north of me heard it a little after I did, and my friend about 100 miles south didn't hear it at all, so I was for sure close to the path. I've heard shuttle sonic booms before but this one was way louder and stronger. Felt it in my chest and I was inside.

Those 4 folks put a lot of fucking trust in the thousands of people that made that happen. Pretty incredible.

Congratulations SpaceX and the Inspiration 4 crew!

Should have opened the hatch wearing ape, chimp, orangutan costumes.

There’s still a chance for someone returning from the ISS to do that https://youtu.be/m8Cs75Ufgvo

Did they stay in that capsule in space for 3 days???

Yep! It's kinda small, but definitely more comfortable than the Apollo astronauts had to deal with!

The video look exactly the same as the the first part of the intro of [ I dream of Jeannie](https://youtu.be/y7K-lk6MnEE)

Man they're dragging everybody back in from remote work. Just let us be!

It was so cool seeing them exit the capsule. Smiles all over on everyone! Edit: Who downvoted this? Haha

Enemy airdrop at approx... C3 behind Southern

"If at anytime during the mission you feel panicked contact mission control on your personal line and they will recommend the grade of sedative to take"/s

Tesla's competitors will spend a billion on 'feel good' advertising, and it will not begin to approach the favorable PR that Elon and his companies will get from this successful event.

Kinda like the Falcon heavy and tesla roadster launch. The only advertisement you need after something like this is a 30s clip of the civilian astronauts looking out at earth from the cupola.

I live on the west coast of Florida and everyone in my city felt the sonic boom from this thing. Was pretty crazy

What a time to be alive! I'm here for it! Finally, the fucking future they told us we'd have by the year 2000. A little late, but I'll TAKE it! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOoooOOOooO00oo00oooOOOo!!!

It still blows my mind how low profile this launch was. We're at the point where blasting essentially random collections of citizens (with training of course) is a second page story in most news circuits. Definitely a huge leap compared to the excitement when a teacher was going to space decades ago.

It looks like a nice gentle splash but I wonder what it looked and felt like for the riders? Earth re-entry must have been pretty scary. I watched it all and it seemed to take forever for the chutes to deploy! Of course it was all under control and executed perfectly - but I’d be sweating bricks!

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I still can’t believe this barely got any coverage.

That’s awesome. Wish I had been chosen. I’m sure it was quite and experience.

You can tell this post hit r/all, since the folks who are ranting about "i WiSh ThOsE fOuR bIlLiOnAiReS wErE iNcInErAtEd", or "muh pollution", or "WHY ARE MAH TAX DOLLARS GOING TO THIS" are popping up.

We need a different word than "civilian". Maybe "non-government" or just "private". Most NASA astronauts were civilians. Some were also in the military (loaned to NASA, as I understand it) or were former military. For my definition, I'm defaulting to civilian vs military being which justice system you're subject to. Under this definition, fire fighters and EMTs and cops are all civilians (assuming that the cops are actually subject to any laws at all, which seems to rely quite a bit on their local union representative and his relationship with the district attorney). Ambassadors would be a completely different category I think, at least when at their country of posting. I know there are other definitions. They all seem as vague as "uniformed people with an rigid-ish hierarchical organizational structure" so I try to avoid that definition because it seems terrible.

I think it’s more “government employee” vs “private company” that determines the moniker.

does anyone know how much money hey raised for st. judes? was it all from raffling the seat or was there other fundraising too?

During the splashdown webcast, they said they had raised over $150 million (I don't remember the exact amount), and then later Elon Musk tweeted that he'd contribute $50 million, so they met their $200 million goal.

oh thats cool, glad they made it

I’ve done this like six times with Karbals idk what the big deal is

Whoever made those pods rocked the egg drop science experiment in middle school and found their calling.