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Call Inspiration4, the mission is the first in history that sends only to rookies to the terrestrial orbit, without professional astronauts on board.

The takeoff is scheduled after 8:02 p.m. (19:02 of Uruguay), with a five -hour launch window and, for the moment, a favorable meteorology.

The Falcon 9 rocket, which carries the Dragon capsule on top, will be launched from the legendary 39A platform of the NASA Kennedy Center in Florida, where the Apollo 11 mission took off the moon.

The four Americans on board will travel farther than the International Space Station (ISS), up to an orbit at 575 km from the earth.Every day they will go around the world about 15 times.

At the end of their trip, "approximately three days after takeoff", they will begin a vertiginous descent to land on the coast of Florida, braking by parachute.

The mission was chartered by the 38 -year -old billionaire Jared Isaacman, director of a financial and experienced pilot services company.

The price paid to Spacex has not been revealed, but it is assumed that these are tens of millions of dollars.He will be the commander on board and offered three other places to strangers.

Hayley Arceneaux, survivor of pediatric cancer, is a 29 -year -old medical assistant.It will be the younger American woman to enter orbit and the first person with a prosthesis (of femur) in doing so.

Chris Sembroski, 42, is an ex -official of the American Air Force that now works in the aviation industry.

Finally there is Sian Princer, a 51 -year -old geology teacher who was about to be selected in 2009 to become NASA astronaut.It will be the fourth Afro -American woman who travels to space.

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Physical tests

The objective is to represent a turning point in the democratization of space and demonstrate that the cosmos is also accessible to people who have not been selected and trained for years, such as astronauts.

For Spacex, it is nothing less than a first step towards a multiparaneary humanity, which is the definitive vision of Elon Musk.

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"We realize how lucky we are and we are trying to be very reflective in the way we address this, hoping to establish the standard that future missions will have," said Jared Isaacman at a press conference on Tuesday."This has just begun".

On board, their biological data (heart rate, sleep, for example) will be analyzed, as well as their cognitive abilities.

They will also be subjected to tests before and after the trip to measure the effect of the lack of gravity in their bodies.

His training lasted just about six months.The flight should be totally automatic, but the crew has been trained by Spacex to take control in case of emergency.

The crew them were also subjected to physical tests.Together they walked through the snow to an altitude of more than 3.000 meters in the northwest of the United States.

They also experienced the force G to which they will be exposed through a centrifugator (a long arm that rotates quickly) and jet flights.

The mission also collects funds for the St Children's Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee), where Hayley Arceneaux now works after having been treated there as a child.

The ship will contain various objects (an ukelele, 30 kg of hops to make beer with space on land, works of art of digitally certified NFT, etc..) that will then be auctioned.

This mission ends a summer of the northern hemisphere marked by multimillionaire flights to space.The first was Richard Branson, on July 11, who took off on board the ship of Virgin Galactic, and a few days later Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, with his company Blue Origin.

But these flights only offered a few minutes of ingrability.

It is the fourth time that Elon Musk's company, which has become a giant of the industry in a few years, sends human beings to space, after having launched 10 astronauts to the ISS on commission of NASA.

Spacex foresees other spatial tourism flights, including one from January 2022, which must transport three entrepreneurs to the ISS.

AFP