Billionaire adventurer Jared Isaacman will become the first private citizen to walk in space this week with the launching of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission on Tuesday morning.
A SpaceX rocket was set to blast off early Tuesday morning on a mission to reach a new milestone in human spaceflight: the first walk in space by private citizens. A Falcon 9 rocket was schedule to lift off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying mission commander Jared Isaacman, a fintech billionaire, and three other crew members, including two SpaceX employees. They will reach the highest Earth orbit since the Apollo program.
Who are the other crew members on the mission? The pilot is Scott “Kidd” Poteet, 50, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who has logged 400 hours of combat flight time and has served as an executive at Shift4. The medical officer is Anna Menon, an operations engineer at SpaceX who has worked on the Dragon program. Mission specialist Sarah Gillis also is an operations specialist at SpaceX who oversees the company's astronaut training program. This is the first spaceflight for all three.
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