The first mission of the Polaris Program , called Polaris Dawn , is await to set in motion on Monday following weeks of delay . Some of them were conditions - related ; since the craft will not dock with a space place , they need to make indisputable they have good atmospheric condition at launch and reentry . It also did not help that the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) grounded SpaceX ’s Falcon 9 rocket following arocket explosionon landing place .
The investigation into the incident has now conclude , however , with the FAA giving the go - ahead for launch .
The mission is maneuver by SpaceX on behalf of billionaire Jared Isaacman , who is joined by pilot Scott Poteet , mission specialist Sarah Gillis , and missionary post specialist and medical officer Anna Menon . The launching windowpane opens on Monday – September 9 , 2024 , at 07:38 UTC – which is the middle of the Nox for the US .
If it is anything like the first attack , you may watch the launch on X ( Twitter ) – it does n’t come along that a program has been pose up yet , but it will likely be shared by thePolaris Program accountwhen it does . X , which is also owned by Elon Musk like SpaceX , has been trying to equal YouTube and TikTok as a video platform , but it has struggled , most of late witha disastrously glitchy interviewbetween Musk and Donald Trump .
Polaris Dawnaims to break several record and do some coolheaded science . It will fly as far as 1,400 kilometers ( 870 miles ) aside from Earth ; this will be the furthest humans have traveled since the Apollo mission and the furthest humans have been in orbit around the dry land . Gillis and Menon are also set to relegate the record for how far women have been from our planet .
The goal of the mission is to conduct the first - ever extravehicular activity on a commercial spaceflight mission . The SpaceX capsule has no airlock , so all four crew members will have to donspecially design suits . While only Isaacman and Gillis will be out of the vehicle , this will be the highest telephone number of humans in the vacuum cleaner of quad .
The team will also direct several medical assessment , admit for the spacewalk , to try and read the core of decompression malady , among other conditions , experienced by astronauts in blank .
The mission is expected to last five days in space , returning either in the Atlantic Ocean or in the Gulf of Mexico .
