Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who flew to orbit aboard a SpaceX craft in September 2021, has purchased three more flights into orbit, and the first is planned for late 2022
It is planned to last five days, during which the Dragon capsule will fly higher than it ever has before, although Isaacman declined to give a number for the planned altitude. “We will fly higher than any Dragon mission has ever flown and endeavour to reach the highest Earth orbit ever flown by humans since the Apollo missions,” he said.
The first spacewalk, or extravehicular activity , ever performed by a commercial astronaut is also planned for this mission. Thefor this isn’t yet complete, but it will be a single suit used for both the launch itself and the spacewalk, said Menon on the press call. Because the Dragon crew capsule lacks an airlock, the entire crew will have to wear spacesuits during the spacewalk because the door to the capsule will be open to the vacuum, she said.
This privately funded mission has more ambitious research and development objectives than previous private missions. It will be the first to test SpaceX’sin communications from space to Earth. The mission will also involve conducting medical research to help understand how space affects astronauts, and tests of the spacesuits. The spacesuit testing and the eventual Starship flight are both intended as steps towards eventual SpaceX missions to the moon, Mars and deep space.
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