Billionaire's 2nd SpaceX trip featuring spacewalk aims for early summer launch
Billionaire Jared Issacman, who flew to space once with SpaceX, is already set for launch No. 2 in early summer.
The mission calls for new spacesuits introduced this past weekend designed so the crew can survive the plan to suck out all of the air of the spacecraft and allow Issacman and a crewmate to make the first commercial spacewalk in history.
Flying on the Crew Dragon Resilience again, the mission dubbed Polaris Dawn is the first of up to three flights Issacman wants to fly, culminating in what is supposed to be the first crewed mission of SpaceX's Starship.
For now, though, the mission has to use SpaceX's existing rocket options, so he and his three crewmates will launch atop a Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39-A. It will mark Issacman's return after his Inspiration4 mission in 2021.
That flight featured three crewmates chosen through a series of contests and fundraisers as well as a representative of his altruistic target, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
His crewmates for Polaris Dawn include two SpaceX employees and one of Issacman's pilot friends.
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