Conheça os tripulantes da Polaris Dawn, missão que realiza caminhada espacial

Lançada na última terça-feira (10) pela SpaceX, a missão Polaris Dawn mandou quatro astronautas civis ao espaço para realizar a primeira caminhada espacial privada. Conheça a seguir a tripulação da nave.

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Jared Isaacman é o comandante da missão. É CEO da Shift4 e piloto experiente com mais de 7.000 horas de voo. Foi o comandante da missão Inspiration4.

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Sarah Gillis é a especialista de missão. Engenheira Líder de Operações Espaciais na SpaceX, ela é responsável pelo treinamento de astronautas para missões da NASA.

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Scott Poteet é o piloto da missão. Ele é um Tenente-Coronel aposentado da Força Aérea dos EUA, com mais de 3.200 horas de voo em várias aeronaves e mais de 400 horas de combate.

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Anna Menon é a especialista de missão e médica. Engenheira Líder de Operações Espaciais na SpaceX, onde gerencia operações da tripulação e atua no controle de missões.

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Nesta quinta-feira (12) Jared Isaacman e a engenheira Sarah Gillis realizaram a primeira caminhada espacial da missão.

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Isaacman se tornou o primeiro astronauta não-profissional a caminhar no espaço, enquanto Gillis fez sua estreia em missões espaciais.

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A missão tem o objetivo de estudar os efeitos da exposição à radiação e testar novos trajes espaciais extraveiculares (EVA), mais flexíveis e multifuncionais.

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Foi atingida uma altitude de 1.400 km acima da Terra, a maior desde o fim do programa Apollo da NASA.

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Além da caminhada espacial, a missão realiza testes sobre a doença de descompressão e a síndrome neuro-ocular associada ao voo espacial.

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