Watch reside: SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn mission to make first personal spacewalk

A SpaceX capsule carrying 4 personal residents blasted off early Tuesday on a five-day mission that’s set to incorporate the primary spacewalk carried out by an all-civilian crew.

The mission, often called Polaris Dawn, lifted off at 5:24 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The journey is designed to hold the 4 crew members to the very best orbital altitude that people have reached for the reason that remaining Apollo moon mission in 1972: 870 miles above Earth’s floor.

While in area, the group will check new spacesuits and applied sciences that might pave the way in which for future long-duration missions to the moon and ultimately Mars

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