American Actor and producer; Tom Cruise gets a call from the four-space tourists orbiting the Earth according to the mission’s electronic account.

Mission control said the crew members; Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux, and Chris Sembroski, spoke with Cruise on Friday.

“Rook, Nova, Hanks, and Leo spoke to @TomCruise sharing their experience from space,” said the Twitter account of Inspiration4, the official name of the first-ever space mission to take place without an actual astronaut.

And they told him, according to the tweet, “You can be our ally, Maverick, whenever you want.” Maverick is the name of the elite pilot played by Tom Cruise in “Top Gun.”

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The names “Rook, Nova, Hanks, and Leo are the call signs of the four passengers aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule at 17,500 miles per hour (28,162 kph).

Tom Cruise who is hoping to make a film in space paid attention as the four crew members shared their experiences in space during a 10-minute live webcast with mission control
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Proctor, 51, who teaches geosciences at a college in Arizona and was a finalist to become a NASA astronaut, displayed a picture she drew with metallic markers of the Dragon capsule being propelled into space by a dragon.

Arceneaux, a 29-year-old physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, demonstrated her impressive spins in zero gravity.
“Hayley is a champ at spinning,” Proctor said. “She has been spinning from the moment we got in orbit.”

“It’s a lot of fun and allows us to lift very heavy things without any issue,” said Arceneaux.

“We’ve also been taking several swabs of different parts of our body to evaluate the microbiome and how that changes in these three days in space,” she added.
And “we have been spending so much time in this cupola,” she observed.

Sembroski, a 42-year-old US Air Force veteran, pulled out his ukelele and played a few chords.
The crew members also opened up the hatch in the nose of the capsule to show off the view from the cupola, a clear glass dome that allows for a 360-degree view outside.

Crew members said they were collecting blood samples for research and doing cognitive tests which will be compared with their results before liftoff.

“We know how fortunate we are to be up here,” said billionaire Jared Isaacman, the mission commander.

The first space tourism mission by Elon Musk’s SpaceX blasted off from Florida on Wednesday for a three-day voyage that is to end with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean at 4:06 pm Pacific time (2306 GMT) on Saturday.

The mission aims to raise $200 million for St. Jude Cancer Patients and study the impact of space on crews that do not include professional astronauts.