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, recently completed acceptance testing for SpaceX's new extravehicular activity spacesuits, which they will wear as they become the first private citizens to perform a spacewalk on orbit., Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, serving as mission specialists, and the mission pilot, retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Scott"Kidd" Poteet.
According to the Polaris website, the vacuum environment allowed SpaceX to collect a number of data on what to expect during an actual EVA:Collection of spacesuit and biometric data to assess the overall system’s performance in a flight-like environment;Insight into the various thermal states expected throughout the spacewalk; and
The first images of SpaceX's EVA suit, which, on the outside, looks like a bulkier version of their intravehucliar actitivy suits — pressure suits worn during launch and landing of a spacecraft, but not designed to operate in the exposed vacuum of space — were revealed on the company's
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