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Reaching for the Stars: Historic Civilian Space Flight Broadcast Live to a Global Audience

September 11, 2024 Catherine Williams World
News Context
At a glance
  • Civilian space travel will be attempted for the first time in human history on the 12th (US time).
  • Polaris Dawn is a space mission hosted by four people, including Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift 4 Payments, an American electronic payment company.
  • Everyone who has walked in space so far has been associated with government agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Original source: m.khan.co.kr

Historic Space Mission: Polaris Dawn

Launched on the 10th, ‘Crew Dragon’ enters a planned orbit

Two people ‘get out’ of the spaceship at an altitude of 700km

The longest manned flight in human history was also successful.

Part of the ‘Crew Dragon’ spacecraft and Earth released by SpaceX on the 11th (local time). The photo was taken after reaching an altitude of 1,400 km, which is the climbing goal. Below the Crew Dragon, a light that appears to be Earth’s night light can be seen. Inside the Crew Dragon are four astronauts who took off from Earth the day before for the ‘Polaris Dawn’ mission. Provided by SpaceX

Civilian space travel will be attempted for the first time in human history on the 12th (US time). If successful, it will be a clear sign that the focus of space development will expand from the government to the private sector. The spacewalk will be broadcast live around the world on the Internet.

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Polaris Dawn is a space mission hosted by four people, including Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift 4 Payments, an American electronic payment company. The day before, at 5:23 am (6:23 pm Korean time), their ‘Crew Dragon’ spacecraft took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and entered the scheduled Earth orbit.

Spacewalking is one of the key goals of Polaris Dawn. Everyone who has walked in space so far has been associated with government agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). For this reason, this swim means that the subject of space development is seriously expanding to the private sector.

The spacewalk takes place at an altitude of 700 km. Among the four astronauts on the Polaris Dawn mission, two, including CEO Isaacman, plan to ‘go out’ outside the spacecraft wearing extravehicular activity space suits. The other two people provide technical support for spacewalking on board. The journey into space lasts 20 minutes.

SpaceX plans to broadcast the scene of the spacewalk live around the world via its website and social networking service (SNS).

On this day, SpaceX revealed this information through X about 16 hours after Crew Dragon took off from Earth.

As a result, the Polaris Dawn astronauts became the farthest humans from Earth other than the Apollo astronauts who went to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. The previous record was 1,367 km altitude set by NASA’s manned spacecraft, Gemini 11, in 1966. This Crew Dragon’s highest crewed flight took place with astronauts on board rather than a spacewalk.

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