SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission returns safely from orbit

good evening adriana diaz is off i'm errol barnett welcome we start this evening with an historic return inspiration for the first privately funded all civilian space crew successfully came back to earth tonight which means science fiction has become reality spacex launched the team of amateurs to circle the globe and now brought them home safely the capsule set down on the atlantic ocean just off the florida coast cbs's mark strassman has been monitoring it all from the kennedy space center good evening mark errol this crew just became the most successful tourist in space history they splashed down off the coast of florida roughly 30 miles from the pad behind me where they launched on wednesday a three-day camping trip in the cosmos ended with a splash off the florida coast inspiration four on behalf of spacex welcome home to planet earth inspiration four a space voyage like no other not a single professional astronaut aboard that itself is not new but by orbiting the earth in a spacex capsule 15 times a day we're seeing the world every 90 minutes the civilian crew did circles around previous adventures in cosmic tourism mission commander jared isaacman the billionaire who chartered the flight so big part of our mission here at inspiration 4 is to inspire what can be done here in space the wow factor was undeniable here crew member chris sombrowski takes pictures in the spaceship's custom cupola with unobstructed hemispheric views crew member haley arsenau flipped for microgravity haley is a champ at spinning arsenal's journey was improbable long before she got to space this video shows her at age 10 fighting bone cancer a patient at saint jude children's research hospital in memphis and that is hayley arsenault 19 years later her backstory fueled inspiration for his goal raised 200 million dollars for st jude watching her launch on wednesday six-year-old matthew arp a leukemia patient at st jude today from orbit inspiration four's crew took space questions from nine child patients now at saint jude including on the matthew you know i i hope there will be one day matthew's mother leslie arp told us it's haley arsenau's life journey that matters what you set your mind to do you can do it and she is proving it every single day she represents hope at a moment in your family's life when you need it yes very much hope very much next month a soyuz capsule will take two russian civilians all the way to the space station they're shooting a movie up there on location so there's no need to build a set errol all right mark straussman thank you

Channel: CBS Evening News

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Keywords: video, cbs, news, spacex, flight, rockets, orbit, outer space, tourism, Elon Musk, Inspiration4, St Jude Children's Hospital

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Length: 3min 2sec (182 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021