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and in florida tonight, splashdown set for just after 7:00. griff: that looks fun. alexandria hoff joining us from washington. thank you. jacqui: and griff, it s a multi-faceted spacex mission a world s first carrying an all civilian crew. and they re doing this for st. jude s and what space tourism might look like. and the university of buffalo, distinguished professor of aerospace engineering, thank you for speaking with us, john. i want your expertise. what makes this flight historic? well, thanks for having me on. it s historic because it is an all civilian crew, the first time ever. think where we were 50 years ago and to go from that to an all civilian crew, it s an amazing result today. i m looking forward to the splashdown. jacqui: we ve had a few weeks, really, or months, i think, of
to earth after a three-day voyage to space. the all civilian crew is making history. alexandria hoff is following the latest and alex welcome to the family. you re our newest reporter here in the d.c. fox family. thank you for joining us. i m so excited, griff and i was thinking of adventure seekers and speaking of space travel and tourism and this is the launch of that. and crew has two rocket burns to lower their altitude and prepare to return to earth. the three-day mission was the first all civilian grew orbiting earth and they ve been doing so a distance farther than the space station and hubble telescope. producing stunning images and coming up with stunning answers for children from st. jude s. is there something and
as you mention, so many firsts, the first four civilians to make it into space. people like you and me, going into space. can you imagine getting behind the wheel of a rocket? no. me either. it is like, not just regular space, they did it big. deep space. higher than the iss, higher than the hubble telecope, 360 miles above us. basically, the distance between l.a. and new york. a couple of other firsts to talk about. the first black space female black space pilot. there is the first person with aesthetic body part to make it into space. they have spent the last few days busy. several scientific experiments to show what impact space has on the human body. fundraising for st. jude s.
we are keeping watch on a live feed where the capsule is right now in this entire re-entry program. at 5:32 the forward hatch was closed. at 6:30 the deorbit burn ended. by 7:02 those parachutes are expected to deploy. the space x inspiration four mission containing the first all civilian team took off from cape canaveral wednesday evening. they quickly reached the parted distance from the farthest distance from the earth, beyond the space station and the hubbell telescope. on board we have a wealthy benefactor who funded the trip, along with a geoscientist and aerospace data engineer and a physician s assistant who survived childhood bone cancer. at 29, the youngest american to head into space. she also connected with the children at st. jude s while they were up there. that flight has raised and hopes to raise 200 million dollars for the children s hospital. earlier today, our jacqui heinrich asked aerospace