Space tourists flew to the ISS and circled the Earth for three days in their own capsule. Now they want outer space
Billionaire wants to go into outer space as a tourist / Photo: Getty Images, Wikipedia, NASA
A group of private astronauts wants to do a spacewalk, one of the most dangerous things humans have ever done in extraterrestrial space.
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Already at the end of 2022, four private astronauts will be able to go into space aboard the Crew Dragon capsule, writes The New York Times.
Among them is billionaire Jared Isaacman, who bought three space flights from SpaceX. Least one of the crew members will leave the spacecraft.
This will occur during the first Polaris mission later in the year and will be the first civilian spacewalk.
The billionaire will also work with SpaceX on two future missions: the second will take astronauts to the ISS, and another will take people on the Starship, which has so far been banned from testing.
Isaacman declined to say how much he was paying for any of the flights, but said the flights were to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The billionaire will fly with three other passengers: Scott Potit, a retired Air Force pilot; Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, engineers at SpaceX.
On the creation of a spacesuit for the exit A team of brilliant engineers works for a tourist in outer space, the billionaire assured.
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Source: Segodnya
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