SpaceX Set WILD New Record While Everyone Else Was Distracted
It's twice as impressive when you compare it to the NASA/Boeing faceplant
When a civilian company being called on to rescue astronauts stranded in space by NASA/Boeing is NOT your biggest story of a month… it’s been a good month.
As big as that story was, there’s another glorious one that got swallowed up in all the other news of our superheated election cycle.
It’s the story of SpaceX setting new records and achieving something not done since Joe Biden’s first term as Senator.
Yep. That long.
The Polaris Dawn mission returned safely from its mission (itself a feat not duplicated by the NASA/Boeing partnership) and achieved a few milestones along the way.
First civilian spacewalk is pretty epic, obviously.
Watch Dragon’s first spacewalk with the @PolarisProgram’s Polaris Dawn crew https://t.co/svdJRkGN7K
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 12, 2024
“We are mission complete,” Jared Isaacman radioed SpaceX’s mission control after it splashed down at 3:36 a.m. ET Sunday, 70 miles west of Key West. After the Crew Dragon capsule was hoisted onto a ship, Isaacman and his three fellow crew members emerged on deck, cheering and pumping their fists for having successfully completed the five-day Polaris Dawn mission.
Billionaire Isaacman, along with two SpaceX employees and a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot, made history by crossing several milestones during the flight. Polaris Dawn orbited about 460 miles above Earth, at one point reaching an altitude of 875 miles, which broke the record for non-lunar missions last set by the Apollo flights in the 1970s.
But the real record was the first civilian spacewalk, which Isaacman and crew member Sarah Gillis completed on Thursday. The two-hour adventure was much shorter than a typical ISS spacewalk by a professional astronaut. In this case, Isaacman emerged from the open hatch to just over his waist, stayed in that position for about 10 minutes, and reentered the capsule so Gillis could emerge to flex her arms and legs in space for several minutes. The hatch was open for about 30 minutes, but the rest of the time was devoted to depressurizing the capsule and then filling it with air.
The brief spacewalk was designed as an initial test of SpaceX’s new spacesuit, which Elon Musk publicly displayed in May. During the exercise, SpaceX’s Anna Menon and Scott “Kidd” Poteet remained strapped in their seats inside the capsule, wearing their spacesuits. — Yahoo News
A lot can happen when you’re daring enough to test your limits.
And even more, when you don’t let government bureaucracy get in the way.
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