After numerous delays , SpaceX has launched one of its riskiest missions yet , sending four civilians into Earth’s Van Allen radiation belt and out on what could be the.
After numerous delays, SpaceX has launched one of its riskiest missions yet, sending four civilians into Earth’s Van Allen radiation belt and out on what could be the first commercial spacewalk. The roughly five-day mission, known as Polaris Dawn, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:23am ET Tuesday in an event livestreamed on X. About 20 minutes later, SpaceX announced the Crew Dragon capsule carrying the first SpaceX employees into space had separated from the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage. The crew will conduct dozens of experiments over Tuesday and Wednesday while preparing for a spacewalk scheduled for Thursday, the aerospace company said, per CNN.
