Today, SpaceX 's billionaire-funded Polaris Dawn mission will make history as an all-civilian crew embark on the world's first private space walk. Starting shortly before 11:00 am BST, the crew will open the hatch of their Dragon spacecraft.
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission will complete the first private space walk. You can watch the spacewalk live from 10:50 BST today on MailOnlineToday, SpaceX's billionaire-funded Polaris Dawn mission will make history as an all-civilian crew embark on the world's first private space walk.
'All systems are looking good for the Polaris Dawn crew to perform the first spacewalk from Dragon today,' it tweeted. Yesterday, the SpaceX Dragon capsule carried the crew to an altitude higher than any human has been to since the Apollo missions Onboard are the billionaire Jared Issacman, former airforce commander Scott 'Kidd' Poteet, and SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon.
Floating beyond the protective walls of a spacecraft is considered to be one of the most dangerous tasks an astronaut can undertake. Starting shortly before 10 am, the crew will begin by purging preparing their new SpaceX extravehicular activity suits and performing a thorough leak check. Mission commander Jared Isaacman will then carefully pull himself out of the capsule and into open space.
While this makes the suits far more mobile, it also means that the 12-foot umbilical will be the only thing preventing the spacewalkers from drifting off or asphyxiating. An hour after the spacewalk begins, the hatch will be closed and the spacecraft will slowly repressurise over the next hour.
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