The first private spacewalk is set for Thursday at 10.55am SAST by a group of SpaceX astronauts.
spacewalk is set for Thursday by a group of astronauts who will leave a SpaceX capsule after a delay of a few hours, testing aA billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees have been orbiting Earth aboard Crew Dragon since Tuesday’s pre-dawn launch from Florida of the Polaris Dawn mission.
Live streaming of the event is set to begin at 8.55am GMT , SpaceX said on Thursday, with two astronauts venturing outside Crew Dragon while two stay inside. The others in Polaris include mission pilot Scott Poteet, 50, a retired US air force lieutenant-colonel, and SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis, 30, and Anna Menon, 38, both senior engineers.Throughout Wednesday, the spacecraft circled Earth at least six times in an oval-shaped orbit as shallow as 190km and stretching out as far as 1 400km, the furthest in space humans have travelled since the last US Apollo mission in 1972.
The Polaris crew has spent two-and-a-half years of training with SpaceX mission simulations and “experiential learning” in challenging, uncomfortable environments, said Poteet. Last month, the fighter pilot told reporters in Florida that spaceflight preparation was more intense than he had experienced in his military career.
The spacewalk will happen as a record 19 astronauts orbit Earth, after Russia’s Soyuz MS-26 mission ferried two cosmonauts and a US astronaut to the International Space Station on Wednesday, taking its headcount to a rare high of 12.The first US spacewalk in 1965, aboard a Gemini capsule, used a similar procedure to the one planned for Polaris Dawn
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