SpaceX Plans To Launch Polaris Dawn Mission Soon
No human has traveled so far into space or passed through the radiation environment since NASA’s Apollo program.
SpaceX plans to push boundaries with its upcoming mission dubbed ‘Polaris Dawn.’
The mission will be a five-day journey with a crew of private astronauts traveling into Earth’s radiation belts with hopes of conducting the first commercial space walk.
The mission is set to take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida sometime between 3-7am Wednesday.
The four-person team is expected to travel into an oval-shaped orbit that extends as far as 870 miles from Earth, which is high enough to plunge the vehicle and crew into the van allen radiation belts.
No human has traveled so far into space or passed through the radiation environment since NASA’s Apollo program.
Polaris Dawn is one in a series of missions aiming to test new technologies that can help advance the goal of seeing humans live and work on other planets.
