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The four Inspiration4 astronauts wave and give thumbs up signs to the camera inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience as they await launch atop NASA's Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 15, 2021. They are (from left): Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux. (Image credit: SpaceX)
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SpaceX launches world’s first ‘amateur astronaut’ crew to orbit Earth

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Crew Dragon capsule, is readied to carry four astronauts on the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, November 13, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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SpaceX to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit