All civilian astronauts sharing activities, including ukulele solo

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Inspiration4 crew members Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski and Sian Proctor checked in via a video link. (Inspiration4 photo)

On the eve of the scheduled return from orbit, the four amateur astronauts introduced their latest event to the world-an extraordinary routine, focused on raising funds for charity and staring at the bubbles of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Shaped against the skylight.

Inspiration4 crew member Chris Sembroski is a data engineer at Lockheed Martin from Everett, Washington, and he even serenated with a custom ukulele.

“I can play a little bit for you,” he said via an air-to-ground video link. “If you want, you can turn down the volume, but I will give it a try.”

Sembroski’s music sounds good; nevertheless, he made a promise. “I haven’t had coffee yet, so it will get better over time,” he said.

The ukulele, like many other items brought by the quartet during its launch on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, will be sold to raise funds for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.

Supporting St. Jude’s mission to treat childhood cancer is the charitable goal behind it Inspiration4 mission, As envisioned by Jared Isaacman, billionaire founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments.Isaacman, an amateur pilot Created his own private fighter fleet, Is paying millions of dollars in mission costs and serving as its commander.

When one of his university partners won a charity raffle for a space ticket, Sembroski was added to the flight-and basically gave the ticket to Sembroski. The other two citizen astronauts are Sian Proctor, an educator and artist, who won an online competition for users of the Shift4 online payment system; Hayley Arceneaux is a cancer survivor and is now St. Jude ( St. Jude)’s doctor’s assistant.

The flight made the 29-year-old Arsenal the youngest American in space and the first person to enter space with a prosthesis (a titanium rod placed on her leg during cancer treatment). Proctor was the first black female space pilot. In short, Inspiration4’s quartet was the first crew member to enter orbit without a professional astronaut.

During their flight, the astronauts are conducting a series of Medical experiment, Including the ultrasound monitor test used to check intercranial pressure-this is a Increasing attention to long-term space flight. They are checking vital signs and will study samples to look for changes in the microbiome.

Most of the task’s to-do list is related to St. Jude’s fundraising and outreach activities: Arceneaux hosted a Video meeting with cancer patients and their families“I just want you all to know that we are doing this,” she said. “We miss you very much. I want to tell you that, like many of you, I am a little girl undergoing cancer treatment. If I can do it, you can do it too.”

Isaacman The first sports betting from space, The bonus is dedicated to the hospital. (he Won a bet on Thursday night, But must wait for his Super Bowl bet to pay off. ) And Sembroski’s Ukulele won’t be the only project Auction for charity: Proctor’s space artwork, autographed copies of Time Magazine, and Dozens of digital NFT creations Will also be listed for sale.

A clone of the mission’s zero-gravity indicator-a plush puppy in a spacesuit that has become the mission’s unofficial mascot-is Price 24 USD In St. Jude Online gift shop(These cubs are currently sold out, but the hospital promised to replenish them.) At the same time, the Samuel Adams Brewery is donating $100,000 to St. Jude in exchange for Turn 66 pounds of space hops into limited edition beer.

The timetable still allows enough time to perform tricks in zero gravity and take turns viewing SpaceX Crew Dragon’s cupola, which was added for this mission because the spacecraft does not have to dock with the International Space Station-as in the previous case, SpaceX’s The first three manned flights into orbitThe crew dragon used for this task, called Resilience, was originally Vehicles delivered to the space station staff last year.

In all respects, Resilience performed flawlessly in autonomous mode, and there were no reports that Isaacman had to take control measures.The spacecraft has reached a maximum altitude of 585 kilometers (364 miles), 100 miles higher than the International Space Station, and the highest altitude that humans have flown since the space shuttle Discovery Visit to the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999.

A splash is currently scheduled to occur in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida at 7:06 pm Eastern Time (4:06 pm Pacific Time). The following are other updates regarding crew orbit activity in Inspiration4’s Twitter account: