The Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch on Tuesday.
Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, commander Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, crew members of Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission, attend a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Aug. 19, 2024.is poised to make history this week by launching four private citizens into ultra-high orbit and attempting the first civilian spacewalk.
This handout photo courtesy of Polaris Program taken on Feb. 11, 2022 shows the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew Jared Isaacman, Mission Commander, Anna Menon, Mission Specialist and Medical Officer, Sarah Gillis, Mission Specialist, and Scott Poteet, Mission pilot.Isaacman, the CEO of the payment-processing company Shift4, will be joined by former Air Force pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet and two SpaceX engineers, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis.
The spacewalk will also serve as a critical test for SpaceX's new Extravehicular Activity spacesuits, an evolution of the intravehicular activity suit.
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