--- title: Watch Live: Inspiration4 Crew Launches to Space description: Join TIME and Netflix as we bring you the launch of Inspiration4—the first-ever all-civilian orbital mission—live. canonical: https://time.com/6097418/inspiration4-launch-live-stream/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2021-09-13T17:31:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-01-22T06:45:31.000Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Live as the Inspiration4 Crew Launches to Space og:description: Join TIME and Netflix as we bring you the launch of Inspiration4—the first-ever all-civilian orbital mission—live. og:url: https://time.com/6097418/inspiration4-launch-live-stream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1e7005e529c9c8/698a1cd2656a3f1181bdb9ea/Live-Launch_00.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Live Launch_00 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live as the Inspiration4 Crew Launches to Space twitter:description: Join TIME and Netflix as we bring you the launch of Inspiration4—the first-ever all-civilian orbital mission—live. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1e7005e529c9c8/698a1cd2656a3f1181bdb9ea/Live-Launch_00.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- # Watch Live as the Inspiration4 Crew Launches to Space for the First All-Civilian Orbital Mission Updated: Jan 22, 2026 6:45 AM UTCPublished: Sep 13, 2021 5:31 PM UTC  by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Jan 22, 2026 6:45 AM UTCPublished: Sep 13, 2021 5:31 PM UTC Are you ready to go to space? Join TIME and Netflix on Wednesday, September 15 at 7 p.m. ET as we bring you the launch of Inspiration4—the first-ever all-civilian orbital mission—live. The Inspiration4 crew, including mission commander Jared Issacman, mission pilot and geoscience professor Dr. Sian Proctor, payload specialist and Lockheed Martin aerospace engineer Chris Sembroski, and medical officer and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital physician assistant Hayley Arceneaux, has been training for the mission for months. The team has spent hours upon hours in simulators and classrooms, and now they’re ready for the real deal, launching for three days in orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Once in space, the crew will spend time communicating with loved ones, students and space fans back home, as well as conducting various experiments. The launch will be historic in more ways than one, as Arceneaux will become the first person with a prosthetic to fly to space. “People who went to space in the past had to be perfect physical specimens,” she recently told TIME, “and that’s not the case anymore. I’m going to be the first pediatric cancer patient to go, but I won’t be the last.”  Photograph by Philip Montgomery for TIME To learn more about the Inspiration4 mission, read [TIME’s previous coverage](https://time.com/collection/inspiration4/). Also be sure to check out TIME Studios’ [_Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission To Space_](https://www.netflix.com/title/81441273?tctx=0%2C0%2Cff064d8c515ea6813bf586cd7918fe97fe9c9b8d%3Aec4eb55f253a1ccf5b04851fcfe0442e181187db%2Cff064d8c515ea6813bf586cd7918fe97fe9c9b8d%3Aec4eb55f253a1ccf5b04851fcfe0442e181187db%2Cunknown%2C&trackId=13752289) on Netflix, a docuseries covering everything from the crew members’ unconventional selection and intensive months-long commercial astronaut training to the intimate moments leading up to liftoff.  ### **Read More About the Inspiration4 Mission:** * [The First All-Civilian Team of Astronauts Is Headed to Space. Here’s What to Know About the Inspiration4 Mission](https://time.com/6083963/inspiration4-mission/?utm%5Fsource=roundup&campaign=inspiration4) * [With Private Space Flight on the Rise, Who Gets to Be Called an Astronaut?](https://time.com/6083954/who-is-an-astronaut-private-space-flight/?utm%5Fsource=roundup&campaign=inspiration4) * [From Civilians to Astronauts: How the Inspiration4 Crew Trained to Go to Space](https://time.com/6083965/inspiration4-space-training/?utm%5Fsource=roundup&campaign=inspiration4) * [Inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon: Here’s how the Inspiration4 Crew Will Fly to Space](https://time.com/6083975/inside-spacex-crew-dragon-spacecraft/?utm%5Fsource=roundup&campaign=inspiration4) * [Meet the All-Civilian Crew of Inspiration 4, From a St. Jude’s Physician Assistant to a Lockheed Martin Engineer](https://time.com/6083979/meet-inspiration4-crew-members/?utm%5Fsource=roundup&campaign=inspiration4) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6097418/inspiration4-launch-live-stream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6097418/inspiration4-launch-live-stream/"},"headline":"Watch Live as the Inspiration4 Crew Launches to Space for the First All-Civilian Orbital Mission","datePublished":"2021-09-13T17:31:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-01-22T06:45:31.000Z","description":"Join TIME and Netflix as we bring you the launch of Inspiration4—the first-ever all-civilian orbital mission—live","url":"https://time.com/6097418/inspiration4-launch-live-stream/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6097418/inspiration4-launch-live-stream/","name":"Watch Live as the Inspiration4 Crew Launches to Space for the First All-Civilian Orbital Mission"}}]}] ```