SpaceX’s Risky Next Mission: The First Private Spacewalk

[Mike Mercury]

launch scheduled this Tuesday. Space walk to happen 2 days later.

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-mission-spacewalk-9f736b80

SpaceX is set to orchestrate the first-ever spacewalk involving private citizens, an operation that will count as one of the company’s riskiest.

Two members of a four-person crew will conduct the walk, which is designed to test new spacesuits that the Elon Musk-backed company has developed.

"Polaris Dawn" is slated to launch Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacewalk is scheduled to happen a couple of days later. Details on the walk’s timing will be released after the launch, a mission spokeswoman said.

But spacewalks pose major risks for those conducting them, leaving astronauts enveloped in a device that must protect them against the vacuum of space, where debris flies by at around 17,000 miles an hour and temperatures can be extreme.

“You’re throwing away all the safety of your vehicle,” Isaacman said during a recent briefing about the mission. “Your suit becomes your spaceship.”

[Swany00]

I wonder if they will have the fist space **** too?

[KenHorse]

I wonder if they will have the fist space **** too?

Talk about a penis pump!

[GrandSportC3]

This may be a greater challenge for the space suits than the spacecraft.

[SteveOceanside]

Test pilots are always up front. punching the frontier, and sometimes paying the ultimate price for the rest of us.

[vettemed]

I wonder if they will have the fist space **** too?

Will zero-gravity make fisting easier? Or harder?

[Unsuspicious]

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/52225108029-367f4650f8-o.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill/f_webp

Not political

[04 commemorative]

They should let that Boeing piece of shit loose and let it burn up on re entry then pick these people up with Musks ship....They should have continued and improved the shuttle system I think but...what do I know.

[Mike Mercury]

Test pilots are always up front. punching the frontier, and sometimes paying the ultimate price for the rest of us.

The first spacewalk ever almost ended in death:


Alexei Leonov

His walk in space was originally to have taken place on the Voskhod 1 mission, but this was cancelled, and the historic event happened on the Voskhod 2 flight instead. He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds on 18 March 1965, connected to the craft by a 4.8-metre (16 ft) tether.

At the end of the spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the airlock. He manually opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off and was barely able to get back inside the capsule.

Leonov did not report his action on the radio to avoid alarming others, but Soviet state radio and television had earlier stopped their live broadcasts from the spacecraft when the mission experienced difficulties.

[JRD77VET]

Also Space X suits do not interchange / are compatible with the Boing suits.

Maybe they should work on getting the "stuck" folks back FIRST.

[owc6]

Also Space X suits do not interchange / are compatible with the Boing suits.

Maybe they should work on getting the "stuck" folks back FIRST.

Why is that Elon's responsibility?

They who sent them up should be responsible for getting them back.

[86RAG]

Elon is bringing them home :yesnod:

Astronauts stuck in space will return with SpaceX craft, NASA says

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/astronauts-stuck-in-space-will-return-with-spacex-craft-nasa-says-217927237581

[Chemtrails99]

Amazing!!! Once again SX does something that NASA has been doing for decades and everyone shits themselves and calls it a first! Now that they've flown around 20 people to orbit and back, they're clearly better than NASA who have flown hundreds of them...

Why all the f'ing worship for non events?

[Frankie the Fink]

I wonder if they will have the fist space **** too?

The 25 mile high club ?
I keep thinking about the two stranded astronauts and now they may be stuck in that metal can until 2025. I hope they're taking precautions....the first weightless space birth could be problematic.

[Unsuspicious]

Amazing!!! Once again SX does something that NASA has been doing for decades and everyone shits themselves and calls it a first! Now that they've flown around 20 people to orbit and back, they're clearly better than NASA who have flown hundreds of them...

Why all the f'ing worship for non events?

The point is they're doing it farther out than NASA has done. By your logic why does NASA celebrate every time they send a probe that reaches out farther than before or a telescope that sees farther out?

[jw38]

Test pilots are always up front. punching the frontier, and sometimes paying the ultimate price for the rest of us.

None of them are test pilots.

[KenHorse]

Amazing!!! Once again SX does something that NASA has been doing for decades and everyone shits themselves and calls it a first! Now that they've flown around 20 people to orbit and back, they're clearly better than NASA who have flown hundreds of them...

Why all the f'ing worship for non events?

Might have something to do with that private sector versus .gov thing, ya think?

[Unsuspicious]

None of them are test pilots.

The two guys are proper pilots, and now they're flying something experimental which makes them test pilots, does it not?

[Mick]

This may be a greater challenge for the space suits than the spacecraft.

Really? You think so?

[MY03C5Z]

Those two thought they were going up for 8 days and now turned into 6 months……what a ****ing nightmare. :kick: They could offer me a free trip to space….F that BS…..I’m fine right here on earth.