Elon Musk’s space exploration company announced that his ship will start a new program called Polaris in late 2022, with two flights this year.
The crew will include American billionaire and SpaceX donor Jared Isaacman., who last year became the first person to purchase a first space tourism flight from SpaceX. Air Force fighter pilot Scott Poteet and engineers Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon will join him on board.
The ambitious missions will see the two engineers take part in the first commercial spacewalk, a feat hitherto only achieved by government space agencies.
An emotional Jared Isaacman told the Today show, “We’re going to go farther into space than humans have gone since we last walked on the moon.” The businessman said two missions on his existing Dragon spacecraft in November or December this year would help the company prepare for its first manned mission on the new Starship rocket in the coming years, which it is currently developing in cooperation with NASA.
He added: “We are going to learn everything we can from the Polaris Program sideSpaceX is going to learn a lot as they prepare Starship for its first manned spaceflight and I think we’re going to combine that to ultimately form what the second mission should look like.”
SpaceX eventually wants to use Starship as a transportation system Fully reusable two-stage rocket that can send humans and large payload assemblies to the moon, mars, and other locations in the solar system.
the billionaire believe your company will be able to put a person on the planet in 10 years, but he hopes that his mission will be achieved much sooner. Musk told the Lex Fridman Podcast in December that the best case scenario would be in about five years, according to what he published. Daily Star.