The missions, collectively known as the Polaris Program, will attempt the highest Earth orbit ever flown and the first fully commercial spacewalk.
’s press conference, Isaacman said he was “not going to comment” on how much he paid for the three Polaris flights, aside from saying the missions are “fully funded” and that he received some financial support from SpaceX.
Polaris Dawn has set some ambitious goals. The mission will attempt to achieve the highest Earth orbit ever flown in 1966), test laser-based communications using SpaceX’s Starlink network, and, perhaps most daringly, perform the world’s first commercial spacewalk.Polaris Dawn will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and spend five days in Earth orbit.
spaceflights, such as tests to study decompression sickness and exposure to radiation. Contributing institutions will include Weill Cornell Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Translational Research Institute for Space Health , the University of Colorado Boulder, and the U.S. Air Fwill be required to either perform a spacewalk or stay inside a fully depressurized capsule. To not get killed in the process, the crew will wear extravehicular activity spacesuits designed by SpaceX.
It certainly feels like we’re at the dawn of a new era. The Polaris Program combines space tourism with serious business, along with a dash of charity thrown in to improve the optics. It should come to no surprise that rich people are the first to use space as their personal playgrounds and workspaces. The rest of us have to be content to watch, and only hope that someday, somehow, we can partake as well.
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