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SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth in splashdown off Florida coast. Four astronauts strapped into a Crew Dragon capsule splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico, wrapping up a mission to the International Space Station. Ref. USAToday.

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Lift off! The first ever all-civilian crew successfully blasts into orbit on the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission. Four private citizens in a specially modified SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule blasted off to start three days of orbiting the Earth, the first time an all-civilian crew will have orbited the planet. Inspiration4 will circle the Earth in a higher orbit than the International Space Station. Source 3c.

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I find private space launches to be very difficult to wrap my head around (They sound so Science Fiction in the "Running out of planet" style). But damn, I would love to be one of those civilians and get the chance to see Earth from space!

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That's amazing and scary all at the same time. I wish we could get to the stage where getting to space wasn't about rocket fuel.

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SpaceX's Starship rocket fails minutes after liftoff in an uncrewed test flight, crashing into the sea. Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites; both the booster and spacecraft on top were to be ditched into the sea. Source 9o.