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As part of the Polaris Dawn mission, two Crew Dragon crew members will go into space on September 12. This was reported by the SpaceX company on its page on the X social network.
It is noted that this is the first ever private spacewalk of non-professional astronauts, which will be carried out by billionaire investor Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis.
Falcon 9 lifting off from pad 39A in Florida and beginning Polaris Dawn's multi-day mission on-orbit, where they will conduct the first-ever commercial spacewalk as early as Thursday, September 12 pic.twitter.com/O9WwHdzv2T
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 10, 2024
"The mission is approaching an altitude that is three times the height of the space station, which is the greatest distance that humans have been from Earth in the last 50 years," Elon Musk wrote on the social network X.
Just over an hour to go before liftoff https://t.co/E1gCss8TUv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 10, 2024
Earlier, on September 10, the launch of the Falcon 39 launch vehicle with the Crew Dragon capsule and the four-person crew of the Polaris Dawn mission took place from Launch Complex 9A of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The American Falcon 9 rocket went into orbit with a group of satellites of the US National Space Administration (NRO), the company that developed the carrier SpaceX announced. As part of the NROL-113 mission, optical-electronic reconnaissance satellites should be launched into orbit.
