SpaceX has been launching rockets from Florida for years and began launching humans to space last year. On Wednesday night it hopes to do something unprecedented in the history of space flight — launch four ordinary citizens into orbit without any professional astronauts along for the ride, Florida Today reports. The mission has been dubbed Inspiration4. It will launch from Launch Complex 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, the same pad from which Apollo 11 launched to the moon. The five-hour launch window opens at 8 p.m.

SpaceX has been launching rockets from Florida for years and began launching humans to space last year. On Wednesday night it hopes to do something unprecedented in the history of space flight &mdash; launch four ordinary citizens into orbit without any professional astronauts along for the ride, Florida Today reports. The mission has been dubbed Inspiration4. It will launch from Launch Complex 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, the same pad from which Apollo 11 launched to the moon. The five-hour launch window opens at 8 p.m.

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