On Thursday, a team of private astronauts will conduct the first-ever private spacewalk from a SpaceX capsule, making it the riskiest mission the company has ever undertaken. The goal of the mission is to test a new line of spacesuits.
After launching SpaceX’s Crew Dragon for the Polaris Dawn mission predawn on Tuesday from Florida, a retired military fighter pilot, a billionaire entrepreneur, and two employees of the company are currently orbiting Earth. This is SpaceX’s riskiest and latest attempt to push the limits of commercial spaceflight. Elon Musk guided the company.
At 700 km (435 miles) in altitude, the Spacewalk is scheduled to start at 2:23 a.m. ET (0623 GMT), with two astronauts leaving Crew Dragon and the other two staying inside. The entire crew will depressurise the capsule to the fullest extent possible.
Wednesday saw the Crew Dragon Spacecraft complete at least six orbits around the planet in an oval-shaped orbit that was as shallow at one end as 190 km and as far as 1,400 km—the furthest human space travel since the final American Apollo mission in 1972.
The Polaris program said in a social media post on Wednesday night that the gumdrop-shaped spacecraft then started to lower its orbit into a peak 700 km position and adjust its cabin pressure in preparation for the Spacewalk, more formally known as Extravehicular Activity (EVA).
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