SpaceX chief Elon Muskrecently describedthe all - civilian Polaris Dawn commission as “ heroic , ” mainly because it will involve the first - ever commercial spacewalk .
The Crew Dragon ballistic capsule being used in next week ’s deputation will also carry the four crew member to a full stop further from Earth than any Crew Dragon has gone before , and will carry humans the utmost from our planet since the final Apollo moon missionary post in 1972 .
While Polaris Dawn crowd phallus Jared Isaacman , Scott Poteet , Sarah Gillis , and Anna Menon wo n’t be fly anywhere near that far , they are head to a detail about 435 miles ( 700 kilometers ) from Earth and some 185 miles ( 298 kilometers ) above the International Space Station ( ISS ) .
It ’s there that Isaacman and Gillis — both non - professional astronaut — plan to exit the Crew Dragon abridgment to embark on the groundbreaking spacewalk . During their two hours outside the spacecraft , they ’ll confirm the functionality of a newly designed , more peregrine spacesuit that could be used in the approaching Artemis moon military mission and other voyages to recondite space .
SpaceX has just divvy up a video ( below ) showing how the spacewalk could await . “ The Polaris Program ’s Polaris Dawn mission will be the first bunch to perform a spacewalk from Dragon , flee higher in Earth ’s orbit than anyone since the Apollo program , trial laser - found Starlink communication , and bear enquiry to help offer sixth sense on human health during long - duration spaceflight missionary work , ” SpaceX said in a commentary accompanying the video .
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Most Crew Dragons are design to tail with the ISS , so SpaceX had to redesign the Polaris Dawn space vehicle to provide an exit and reentry breaker point for the historical spacewalk . Spacewalks on the ISS utilize an air lock between the vacuum of space and the independent part of the post , but the redesign Crew Dragon has no such quickness . This means that all four spaceman will have to put on the spacesuit as the capsule readies to open up the hatch so that Isaacman and Gillis can leave behind the vehicle to set about their base on balls , with the intact spacecraft experiencing a pressure change rather than just a discussion section of it .
The mission will end with a splashdown off the coast of Florida in the same manner as Crew Dragons take back from the ISS .
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