Denise Chow is a science and space reporter for NBC News.
Four private citizens are set to launch on an ambitious, first-of-its-kind space mission next week that is expected to include the first spacewalk conducted entirely by a commercial crew. The mission, dubbed Polaris Dawn, is scheduled to lift off Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida sometime between 3:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. ET. Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of the payment processing company Shift4, will be commander of the Polaris Dawn flight.
“The idea is to learn as much as we possibly can about this suit and get it back to the engineers to inform future suit design evolutions,” Isaacman said Monday in a news briefing from the Kennedy Space Center. Isaacman and his fellow crew members spent the past two years training for the flight. “Throughout our mission, we will aim to inspire humankind to look up and imagine what we can achieve here on Earth and in the worlds beyond our own,” Isaacman said in a statement Monday.
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