(AmericanProsperity.com) – The SpaceX Falcon has just taken off for its first private spacewalk, and it left from Florida for a five-day mission. The spacewalk itself is scheduled for Thursday and will be partially to test a new upgraded space suit.
The spacecraft is named Resilience and it will go out further than anyone has gone since NASA’s Apollo program that ended in the seventies. The crew, while in space, will be conducting forty experiments which include an inter-satellite laser communication between the spacecraft and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation.
Technology entrepreneur Jared Isaacman will go into space alongside a pair of SpaceX engineers and a former U.S. Air Force pilot. Isaacman denied stating how much he invested into the flight.
William Gerstenmaier, a SpaceX vice president, said, “We’re really starting to push the frontiers with the private sector.”
This mission, called Polaris Dawn, is one of three trips that Isaacman purchased from founder Elon Musk after he returned from his first private SpaceX flight. The spacewalk itself is expected to go on for two hours and it is the riskiest part of the trip.
Isaacman and SpaceX’s Sarah Gillis will be able to test out their new spacesuits. The point of this is to make spacesuits more comfortable and easier to fit for all shapes and sizes. It’s also to make them more affordable as space travel becomes more common for people.
There has been some criticism around billionaires buying their way into space history when they are not experienced astronauts. In this case, Isaacman is the most qualified person onboard as he was already in space a previous time.
“I wasn’t alive when humans walked on the moon. I’d certainly like my kids to see humans walking on the moon and Mars, and venturing out and exploring our solar system,” said Isaacman before liftoff.
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