<Anchor> The
space exploration company SpaceX has returned to Earth safely after a three-day trip. The era of private space tourism has opened up, but you must first be able to afford the cost.
Correspondent Kim Jong-won from New York.
<Reporter> When
SpaceX's Crew Dragon, carrying four space tourists, enters the atmosphere, applause and cheers erupt.
The parachute opens and the capsule lands safely in the waters around Florida, USA.
[Control Room: Welcome back to your hometown district. Through your mission, the world has learned that space is for all of us.] The
Crew Dragon reached a height of 585 km, higher than the International Space Station as well as the Hubble Telescope.
After three days of orbital flight, it orbited the Earth at a speed of 27,000 kilometers per hour, once every 90 minutes, 15 times a day.
[Alana/Children's Hospital Patient: Can you float in space because there is no gravity?]
[Haley Arseno/Space Traveler (Nurse): People in space can float like us. Spacewalking is so much fun. Let's see if other occupants can catch this chocolate?]
All of the passengers were ordinary people, billionaire businessman Isaacman paid tens of millions of dollars to purchase a seat, and then took nurses, professors and Iraqi war veterans to space.
After Isaacman returned home, he wrote that it was a great flight, and SpaceX CEO Musk left a message of congratulations.
With 4 space travel reservations completed in the future, the era of full-scale private space travel began in that Space X had a fairly high flight altitude, unlike other existing private space travel, and in particular, completed space travel only with passengers without professional astronauts. is being evaluated.
(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)