The first SpaceX tourists have embarked on their space cruise

In a huge fireball illuminating the night, the rocket's nine first-stage engines ripped the craft out of Earth's gravity. Share Lucie AubourgAgence France-PresseFour American space tourists began an incredible weightless journey on Wednesday in a SpaceX vessel, where they are to spend three days in orbit around the Earth without any professional astronauts on board, a historic first.