Inspiration4 Successfully Launches Into Orbit

SpaceX takes 4 passengers to orbit—a glimpse at private spaceflight’s future. The Inspiration4 crew will spend three days circling the planet on a mission that aims to raise $200 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Watch Live: SpaceX to Send Four Amateur Astronauts Into Orbit

Inspiration 4 is an all civilian mission to orbit, but NOT the first one. The first all-civilian orbital space crew was that of Soyuz TMA-3 in 2003, with Aleksandr Kaleri, Mike Foale and Pedro Duque.