the crews commander, billionaire, businessman and flight funder, 38 year old jared isaacson. 51 year old, same proctor, a community college professor from arizona and the 1st black woman to pilot a spacecraft and 29 year old hailey arsenault of physicians assistant at st. jude children's research hospital in memphis, tennessee. jeff bezos, whose own trip to space aboard his blue origins, new shepherd, back in july, that made history as well tweeted, quote, congratulations to you on musk and the space ex team on their successful inspiration for launch last night. another step towards a future where space is accessible to all of us. while the inspiration for trip isn't as high profile are celebrated as basis is johnson to orbit space x has already sent some pretty big milestones along with having the 1st black female pilot. it also includes the 1st entirely non professional crew to become astronauts . along with the youngest american citizen to reach space crew commander, jared isaacson paid for the trip for an undisclosed amount of money with the goal of raising $200000000.00 for the

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that's the voice of the missions commander, billionaire, jared isaacson. he paid an undisclosed thumb fit to be about $200000000.00 for the flight and his 3 gave blasting off from cape canaveral on wednesday. the spacecraft billed and launched by entrepreneur musk company space 6 was fully autonomous and operated by teams on the ground. all journey uphill was only about 12 minutes. before we knew it were hanging our shops and floating. and then we were like, what do we do next? the captured soon reached an altitude of about 585 kilometers above earth. the fathers to any human has flown from our planet since 1972, the largest window ever phone and space. we can put our head in and say multiple crew members and to see the entire perimeter of the earth. and the views i have to say are out of this we're on a little mosque has reportedly said he's more interested in building the infrastructure of a private space. travel then taking off himself. this space odyssey was far higher, faster and longer than the recent flight by musk space, rivals and fellow billionai

jared isaacson who funded all of this is above us along with hayley arceneaux. and two others.ecedent or for that matter of level of danger. of course, you recall back in 1986 some 35 years ago when the challenger space shuttle exploded seconds after lifting off, killing seven people onboard. one of them was christa mcauliffe, a teacher from new hampshire, who was trying to be the first civilian in space. we have four civilians in space now. christa mcauliffe was trying. while she never made it, she had quite a huge impact on so many generations of people who have been inspired by her work and what she was doing as a teacher. i'm joined by two of them, former students. kristin and holy. holly. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> good morning. >> kristin, let me start with you. you were both high school students of christa mcauliffe alt the time. you watched at her rocket listed off in horror, no doubt. as you're watching the "inspiration4" lift-off at nearby cape canaveral, what were you thinking? >> the anxiety level of what comes up of what could possibly go wrong is r

the launch was funded by one of its passengers as they do, a billionaire named jared isaacson.cal perry joins us live. i was thinking about this tonight, early air travel was at first only the brave and then only the rich. and think about space travel, at first only the brave, and now it's opened up to the rich. but the goal is to make it like southwest airlines someday, i guess. >> that's right, and elon musk and spacex think this is the road to doing that. they will point to what they can reuse. they can reuse the rocket, the rocket that took these four new astronauts to space has been used twice before to put military satellites into orbit. the actual capsule that they're using has been to the international space station. that is spacex's answer to how do we make this cheaper, how do we open it up to everybody. the way that my generation -- and i'm old enough to know what a stick of beeman's is and what the right stuff is. the way my generation looks at those apollo missions is the way my kids are going to look at the shuttle missions. the idea that we used to just dump the

part of what this mission did, jared isaacson held a fundraiser for st. jude, so that's wonderful.and i'm glad they actually had some science goals on this mission. you know, so this is the first milestone. it was all amateurs on board, no professional astronauts, no manual flying capability. and so far it looks like it's going wonderfully. >> kendis, that yelp there, i imagine that was re-entry? >> reporter: it sounded like reentry. it might have been them breaking the speed of sound. i'm not a nasa scientist, but i'll tell you it was pretty cool. you just heard this huge thud that took place all around here. everybody looked up to see if they could see. you can see right now from that shot that we're finally seeing it, and the parachutes of dragon are in sight. >> talk us through what we're watching at this moment. >> well, i can't see the screen right now, but i'm assuming that you have all the parachutes deployed. >> that's exactly right, yes. >> it's coming down, it's probably swinging slowly as it comes down under the parachute. the parachutes slow the vehicle down enough so