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I posted this in a duplicate thread, but I don’t think this is the first “all civilian” space flight? E.g. Here is a space flight where no crew members were in
by Pulcinella 5y ago
I posted this in a duplicate thread, but I don’t think this is the first “all civilian” space flight?
E.g. Here is a space flight where no crew members were in the military:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-09 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-09
- Robotbeat 5y agoRight, they're using the term informally to mean non-government with no professional astronauts. (They clarified this on the stream.)
- tssva 5y agoCivilian in this case is being used to denote that none of the crew is being sent as part of a governmental agency. In the the flight you are referencing all 3 crew were members of governmental space agencies.
- gpm 5y agoI don't know if this is the first or not (under the traditional definition of civilian), but I don't think your link is not a counter example... Sergei Propopyev apparently commanded that mission, and per NSF immediately before becoming a cosmonaut he was the commander of an aviation group of strategic bombers with the 121st Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment in the Saratov region. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/06/soyuz-ms-09-crew-artificial-intelligence-launch-station/ https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/06/soyuz-ms-09-crew-art...
- ctdonath 5y agoIt’s the first “I’d like to buy 3 days in orbit for 4” flight.