Clayton joins the team after a long stint at ABC News, first as a producer in Washington D. C. and then as a correspondent based in Denver.
Polaris Dawn is on the launchpad and ready for takeoff as soon as the weather cooperates.Once in space, four civilian astronauts aboard a SpaceX capsule will be going where no humans have gone in more than a half-century.They will venture as high as 870 miles into the Van Allen radiation belts. No humans have done that since Apollo 17 in 1972. There they will study the effects of radiation on the human body.Then the capsule will drop to about 470 miles above earth.
The mission has been delayed for a couple of years by technical problems and design issues.RELATED STORY | The Starliner space capsule has returned to Earth without its crewOn board are mission specialists Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, who are both engineers for SpaceX.'Polaris is all about accelerating the technology development,' said Gillis. Pilot Scott Poteet is a former Air Force pilot who once flew with the Thunderbirds.
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