The astronauts on board will perform a spacewalk that will be both the first from a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first for a private mission.
To date, government agencies have always carried out every spacewalk. The vast majority have taken place outside the International Space Station and are conducted by astronauts and cosmonauts from NASA, Roscosmos, the European Space Agency, and Japan's space agency, JAXA.The Polaris Dawn team aims to break this mold by carrying out its spacewalk from a relatively tiny SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule orbiting Earth. The crew will then go on to reach a record-high orbital altitude.
“There’s a ton of new development that’s happening to support that,” said Anna Menon of SpaceX, another member of the Polaris Dawn crew. To achieve this lofty goal, the team will have to implement upgrades to the life support systems on the Crew Dragon spacecraft. “The suit development that is occurring for this mission is really going to help us learn, and we’ll be able to build on this as we go to the moon and ultimately go to Mars,” Menon added.
In addition, the team aims to fly Crew Dragon in an orbit with an apogee of 1,400 kilometers, the highest for a crewed mission in Earth orbit, and to trial communications with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation.“To get there, we’re going to try to learn an awful lot along the way,” Isaacman concluded.Be the first to read our latest stories, analysis, and trend-spotting on tech from every corner on earth. Sign up for our weekly newsletter today.
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