** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[darkgen]

Here we go, cabin venting. the whole thing is audacious. Hope it all goes well.

 

[Grim5]

will have to see if Musk put's himself into similiar precarious situations as this Jared Isaacman guy,
I'm surprised they call him commander does he have technical skills (better than stockton rush), equally other participant are not private ticket buyers like I'd thought

What time does SpaceX's Polaris Dawn private spacewalk mission launch?

The Polaris Dawn mission is currently scheduled to launch on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:38 a.m. EDT (0738 GMT) from Florida's Cape Canaveral.

www.space.com

Musk is a coward he will never climb in one of his own ships

 

[ic1male]

I'm waiting for them to open the door and an alien xenomorph standing there waiting.

 

[Merlin5]

They're go to open hatch.

 

[ic1male]

It looks so flimsy like they're never going to be able to get it back in position again!

 

[JUMPURS]

It looks so flimsy like they're never going to be able to get it back in position again!

Yeah that seal looks a bit wobbly.

 

[jpaul]

Open the pod bay doors Jared - & hang on to it.

 

[LostCorpse]

its open !

 

[VaderDSL]

I wonder what special precautions they have to take to protect the computers, screens etc? When they de pressurise the cabin

 

[LostCorpse]

dont fall off its a long drop

 

[cu3ed]

All that stuff and they cut away from it actually opening lol. FS.

 

[Merlin5]

Hope he's well tethered and doesn't float off into space!

 

[ic1male]

Now live from Hollywood Studio 1A...

 

[VaderDSL]

Meanwhile the astronauts who toiled over fixing Hubble are sitting there thinking “pfft amateurs”

 

[Merlin5]

Amazing picture quality compared to usual spacewalk streaming.

 

[LostCorpse]

Now live from Hollywood Studio 1A...

i was thinking this also but didnt want to say it

 

[jpaul]

how quick is the orbit .. will they be back on sunny side of earth soon, even if the capsule attitude is set so they are not pointed towards sun.

 

[Merlin5]

BBC guy saying they carried out a historic spacewalk. Was hardly a spacewalk, they just stood halfway out of the exit. Was an interesting watch though.

 

[MadMossy]

BBC guy saying they carried out a historic spacewalk. Was hardly a spacewalk, they just stood halfway out of the exit. Was an interesting watch though.

A space walk is any activity outside of the vessel, and they were both outside of the vessel. Being outside doesn't require their entire body to be out though, they could literally just pop their heads out and that would count. You have to remember, even the slightest problem could result in almost immediate death.

It is also historic as its the first ever privately funded one, step 1 towards commercial space ventures.

 

[darkgen]

Pretty stunning achievement all told. Having being used to the NASA "suit vehicles", to see what I most think of as SciFi spacesuits is astonishing. Wild.