The planned spacewalk -- a first for a private mission -- will rely on simply opening the spacecraft’s hatch.
Four astronauts from the Polaris Dawn mission — from left, Jared Isaacman , Sarah Gillis , Anna Menon and Scott “Kidd” Poteet , say they've gone through some 2,000 hours of simulator training to prepare for an ambitious visit to space.If billionaire cosplay sits at one end of the spectrum of private space travel and scientific research at the other, the Polaris Dawn mission aims to move the needle toward the latter.
The astronauts’ SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule will ride into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket taking off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The facility is and former Air Force pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet , along with SpaceX engineers Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon . “It could very well be the 737 for human space flight someday,” Isaacman said of Starship. “But it'll certainly be the vehicle that will return humans to the Moon and then on to Mars and beyond.”The mission revolves around several big milestones.
SpaceX designed special suits to protect astronauts facing the vacuum of space, as they plan to perform an extravehicular activity .“About an hour after getting , we will start our ‘pre-breathe’ protocol,” Menon said. The procedure is designed to help the astronauts adjust to what’s coming: the pressure change of opening the craft to the vacuum of space. The process is meant to eliminate nitrogen from their bodies, to lower the risk of decompression sickness.
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