SpaceX to launch Polaris Dawn flight featuring billionaire crew member, first commercial spacewalk
CBSN
Jared Isaacman, a billionaire adventurer and philanthropist who chartered the first commercial flight to orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon in 2021 plans to blast off with three crewmates on an even more daring flight Tuesday, this one featuring the first commercial spacewalks.
Wearing innovative SpaceX-designed suits and connected to their spacecraft by 12-foot-long umbilicals and safety tethers, Isaacman and SpaceX crew trainer Sarah Gillis will each spend about 15 minutes each just outside the ship's forward hatch to put the suits through their paces.
Their two crewmates, former F-16 pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet and Anna Menon, a SpaceX Crew Dragon mission director, will remain inside the cabin wearing their own spacesuits. The Crew Dragon is not equipped with an airlock, and the cabin will have to be vented down to vacuum before the ship's hatch is opened to space.
