Watch the Inspiration4 blast off in 4K video

The Inspiration4 mission lights up Florida’s Space Coast as its Falcon 9 rocket roars away from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 8:02:56 p.m. EDT on Wednesday Sept. 15, 2021 (0002:56 GMT Thursday). The Inspiration4 crew includes a wealthy entrepreneur with a penchant for aerobatic flying, a science educator with a lifelong ambition to fly in space, a physician assistant who survived childhood cancer, and an Air Force veteran turned data engineer.