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The mission, Polaris Dawn, will liftoff early Tuesday , from SpaceX's Launch Complex-39A, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center — the same pad that supported all the crewed Apollo missions to the moon. Though it's true each of SpaceX's astronaut launches to date has flown out of LC-39A, it's particularly fitting that the members of Polaris Dawn will also launch from there, as this mission will take them further than any crewed flight has gone since Apollo 17, in 1972.
Isaacman will fly as Polaris Dawn's mission commander, and will be joined by the mission's pilot, retired United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Scott"Kidd" Poteet, and the first two SpaceX employees to launch to orbit, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, who both work as Lead Space Operations Engineers. Gillis and Menon will serve as mission specialists.
The focus of this spacewalk is to test the function and mobility of SpaceX's new spacesuits. Similar in style to the sleek, white suits worn by Dragon astronauts since, these new suits feature enhanced thermal control materials and technologies to help protect the wearer from the harsh, rapidly shifting environment of space.
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