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Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space
2021 · TV series · documentary · 45 min episodes · 1 season
From training to launch to landing, this all-access docuseries rides along with the Inspiration4 crew on the first all-civilian orbital space mission.
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Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space (2021)
A 5 part Netflix docuseries detailing the background and story of the Inspiration4 mission. I thought it was literally inspirational.
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This story says everything about the state of media today: If there's no blood, find the next best thing. Anything for a click. It's disgusting. Particularly when you realize it is this way for nearly everything. Which means you almost never learn the truth about anything being reported without doing your own digging.
Never mind that this was a historic event where each of the four people on that flight represented something good about humanity. No, they have to talk about someone getting sick and a toilet fan issue.
And, never mind that they raised over $200 million dollars for St. Jude Children's hospital. No, what matters is a toilet! Who are these people?
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If you want to learn more about this historic event, I highly recommend the five episode series about it on Netflix. It is excellent.
Here's the mission website:
https://inspiration4.com/
I thought is was remarkable that they did not make this about SpaceX. Elon Musk barely shows-up in the documentary. It is all about the people, their stories and the mission.
I am also particularly proud of this moment because we worked for SpaceX on a related contract for a couple of years (can't discuss details).
My take is a little bit different from what I've read so far. SpaceX just completed a truly history all-civilian, all-non-astronaut, three day orbital flight at an altitude above the ISS. SpaceX also secured Artemis mission contracts. They go to space all the time and continue to optimize their reusable orbital-class systems.
the Blue Origin and Virgin offerings are not even in the same class. And Blue Origin/Bezos is struggling to remain relevant. I see the Shatner thing purely as a publicity stunt. I also see it as having no real value whatsoever. Just my opinion.
On top of that, they raised over $200MM for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
The SpaceX Netflix documentary on the Inspiration4 mission is worth watching.
Here's the flight's website:
https://inspiration4.com/