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space tour ship carrying only four civilians without professional astronauts was successfully launched from the United States.
They will go on a three-day space tour, orbiting the Earth once every hour and a half.
For more details, reporter Kim Jung-gi will tell you.
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Yesterday (15th) at 8:03 pm local time in the United States.
SpaceX's spaceship 'Crew Dragon' breaks through the darkness and ascends into the sky.
About 2 minutes and 50 seconds after launch, the rocket's main engine was disconnected, and about 12 minutes and 20 seconds after launch, the capsule was disengaged, and the Crew Dragon went into a successful orbital flight.
The spacecraft orbits the Earth once every hour and 30 minutes at a speed of 22 times the speed of sound at an altitude higher than the International Space Station's ISS or the Hubble Space Telescope.
Two men and two women are on board, not professional astronauts, but pure civilians.
In particular, one of the passengers, a 29-year-old nurse Arseno, was recorded as the first astronaut to wear a prosthetic leg.
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space X of this space tourism is very little gravity for a few minutes It is an evaluation that it has opened a new era of space tourism that is different from the low-orbit flights of Bezos and Richard Branson, who experienced non-existent conditions.
The spacecraft is expected to return to the Atlantic Ocean near Florida after completing a three-day space flight after conducting various experiments such as body changes.
(Video editing: Yonghwa Jung)