WASHINGTON: Four members of a SpaceX mission that will carry out the first-ever private spacewalk arrived in Florida on Monday (Aug 19) ahead of their takeoff next week.
Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, commander Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, crew members of Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission, attend a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US on Aug 19, 2024.
He did not reveal how much he has spent on the program, which includes a total of three missions and which he jointly funds with SpaceX. The mission has three main objectives, in addition to the 40 or so experiments that will be conducted on board. A second objective for the mission is to conduct a laser communication test between the ship and SpaceX's Starlink satellites.
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