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As you gaze towards the North Star, remember that your courage lights the path for future explorers. We trust your skills, your bravery, and your teamwork to carry out the mission that lies ahead,
Crew safety is absolutely paramount and this mission carries more risk than usual as it will be the furthest humans have travelled from Earth since Apollo, and the first commercial spacewalk,
Musk wrote about the mission last month on his social media site, X We stand to learn quite a bit from [this mission] about human health, science and research,
Isaacman said in a pre-mission briefing on Monday Going to another planet, you have to go over billions of miles of hostile space… and try to create an ecology on a planet that is nothing like the planet that we live on today,
Musk said in a video reshared to his X account in May I think SpaceX has been very clear to everyone what their future holds. They want to build a settlement on Mars,
So I think this is a very calculated risk. I think of it as a stepping stone more than a risk, where they're not going completely out there and doing something different,
Tripathi, who now directs mission operations at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, told Business Insider If we get to Mars someday, we'd love to be able to come back and be healthy enough to tell people about it,
Isaacman said in a pre-launch briefing on August 19.