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All systems are looking good for the Polaris Dawn crew to perform the first spacewalk from Dragon today
Developed with mobility in mind, SpaceX teams incorporated new materials, fabrication processes, and novel joint designs to provide greater flexibility to astronauts in pressurized scenarios while retaining comfort for unpressurized scenarios,
This is a mission which violates Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty,
Tomasso Sgobba, executive director of the Netherlands-based International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety told Al Jazeera in an interview It means the US government must take into consideration that it, too, should not do the things it does not like other countries doing. That’s why this treaty will [continue] to be successful,
So a compromise was made for private companies, subject to the permission, authorisation, supervision and responsibility of their respective states, and this is fundamental,
The activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty.”
The treaty is more valid today, and should be valid tomorrow,
said Ram Jakhu, former director of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University The FAA has no regulatory oversight for the activities of the Polaris Dawn mission,
I believe that article VI does not leave much room to interpretation,
The lack of an independent oversight may have left somewhere an open issue which has not been identified.”
The crew also spent a few hours demonstrating the suit’s pressurized mobility, verifying positions and accessibility in microgravity along with preparing the cabin for the EVA,
It'll look like we're doing a little bit of a dance,
Isaacman quipped during a recent press conference I feel very comfortable that there's maybe no better team in the world from a safety perspective than the folks that are trying to make sure every I is dotted and T's are crossed at SpaceX,
They will be testing a new suit with people who have never done this before,
I'll be watching with great interest,
You are taking on a lot of risk at that point,
Isaacman said in a briefing on August 19. I know that they take safety very seriously,
Leroy Chiao, a retired NASA astronaut who has spent more than 36 hours on spacewalks and consulted for SpaceX on its Safety Advisory Panel for 12 years, told Business Insider in an email You're throwing away all the safety of your vehicle,
There's obviously a ton of learning that needs to happen through this first development, [including] how the suit operates and what mobility and dexterity and tactility and all those key suit metrics that we need to look into,
Some of the research that we will do really digs into that radiation environment looking at how medications perform when exposed to that sort of radiation, looking at whether you can develop diagnostic technologies in that environment, such as X-ray images,
crew member and medical officer Anna Menon told TIME