‘Happy’ SpaceX tourist crew spend first day whizzing around Earth

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon seen on the launch pad, which was used for the first completely private mission to fly into orbit, sending four private citizens on a three-day mission. — AFP

SpaceX’s all-civilian Inspiration4 crew spent their first day in orbit conducting scientific research and talking to children at a paediatric cancer hospital, after blasting off on their pioneering mission from Cape Canaveral the night before.

St Jude tweeted its patients got to speak with the four American space tourists, “asking the questions we all want to know like ‘are there cows on the Moon?’”