A brand-new video shows the Inspiration4 crew unveiling their incredible view of Earth, as seen through a domed window in their Crew Dragon spacecraft.The 90-second video (which consists of quick profanity, in case youre watching with kids) was published on the Inspiration4 YouTube channel Wednesday (Sept. 22) after being filmed by crewmember Sian Proctor during the mission, which landed securely back in the world Saturday (Sept. 18). The video reveals crewmembers Chris Sembroski and Jared Isaacman (the billionaire who reserved and commanded the SpaceX mission) slowly hefting the cover far from the dome as the style from “2001: A Space Odyssey” plays in the background. In the foreground, Hayley Arceneaux gets some devices prepared before gazing out the window in wonder, together with the other crewmates.Inspiration4: SpaceXs historic private spaceflight in photosEarth as seen through the cupola window of SpaceXs Crew Dragon lorry Resilience on the Inspiration4 objective. (Image credit: Inspiration4/Sian Proctor) Crew Dragon usually carries a docking port for International Space Station (ISS) activities. With no requirement to go to the orbiting laboratory on this objective, Inspiration4 crewmembers elected to instead utilize a domed window, or cupola, to get a view of Earth from 367 miles (590 kilometers) up, higher than Crew Dragon had actually ever flown before. The ISS elevation is around 250 miles (400 km). When SpaceX initially flaunted the cupola in March, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said the 360-degree view that it offered would be actually out of this world. (Crew Dragon has other windows that astronauts can use, but they are smaller and lie flat along the pills sides.) “Probably most in space you might potentially feel by remaining in a glass dome,” Musk wrote on Twitter in late March.A major objective of the Inspiration4 objective was to raise $200 million and a great deal of awareness for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The crew even talked with a handful of St. Jue patients from space, consisting of some treated by Arceneaux– a youth cancer survivor who was dealt with at St. Jude and works as a physician assistant at the hospital today. Inspiration4 surpassed its fundraising objective by landing day, and the all-civilian crew has spoken often about the variety of its crewmembers and how that helped them during the spaceflight.Follow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook..
