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Space Tourists Announce Plan to Climb Out of SpaceX Spacecraft and Ghostride the Whip

Space Tourists Announce Plan to Climb Out of SpaceX Spacecraft and Ghostride the Whip

Whoa. Ghostride the Whip SpaceX is planning to make history by enabling the first entirely commercial spacewalk. During this summer’s Polaris Dawn mission, a crew of four space tourists is planning to don SpaceX’s brand-new extravehicular activity (EVA) suit to venture outside of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, giving them once-in-a-lifetime views of the Earth below. “It’s the first commercial EVA,” said commander Jared Isaacman during a discussion on X-formerly-Twitter. “It’s the first time you don’t have government astronauts undertaking such a mission.” “And that’s important because we are going to get to the moon or Mars someday,” he added. “We’re going to have to get out of our vehicles, out of the safety of a habitat and explore, and build and repair things.” Open the Pod Bay Doors Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and trained fighter jet pilot, was the commander of the first all-civilian mission into space, which saw a crew of four circle the Earth inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft in September 2021. The Polaris program he’s funding is made up of three upcoming …