Investor Bitcoin Chun Wang took three people aboard his private Spacex flight, which made a unique journey around the Earth’s poles.
Tourists Space X returned to Earth Photo: X
Four spatial tourists have safely reached Earth, after giving a new space route aboard one of Elon Musk’s Spacex capsules.
Magnate Bitcoin Chun Wang, who rented the Spacex flight, and three other people landed on Friday, on the Southern California coast, applauding successful journey, writes Ski News.
After taking off on Monday, it became the first human space flight that surrounded the globe above the North Pole and the South Pole – and the first lowering of a space crew over the last 50 years.
The crew passed over the ice masses about every 40 minutes, from 435 kilometers high.
The Dragon capsule was equipped with a window that offers 360 degrees on polar glacial caps and everything that is between them.
Wang, born in China and now a citizen of Malta, invited three associates – Norwegian director Jannicke Mikkelsen, German researcher in Robotics Robea Rogge and the Australian Polar Guide Eric Philips – to accompany him in his private flight.
Chun Wang
They all met in Svalbard, the Norwegian Arctic Archipelago, he wrote on X.
Wang refused to say how much he paid for the three -and -a -half -day trip. But it seems that the price amounts to $ 55 million per person.
This is the sixth fully private space mission of Elon Musk’s spatial company.
Spacex and his dragon ship dominated the emerging market for private space tourism.
“So epic”
“It’s so epic because it is another kind of desert so it continues and continues and continues all the way“, said the researcher Rabea Rogge in a video posted by Wang on X, while looking down from miles above the ground.
All four suffered from evil movement in space when they first arrived in orbit, but adapted the next day, according to Wang.
Private astronauts performed 22 research experiments during their mission, including the exit of the capsule without the usual assistance of the ground crew, in trying to demonstrate how easy people could lower a spacecraft on the Moon or on Mars.
It is known that space flight, especially in long -term missions, reduces bone density and muscle mass and has other effects on the body, which have been studied for a long time.
Spacex said he changed the Florida to Pacific diving place for safety reasons.
The last people who returned from space to the Pacific were the three NASA astronauts who participated in the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission.
