{"id":194757,"date":"2024-08-18T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-first-spacex-spacewalk-what-the-polaris-dawn-commander-says-about-the-bold-upcoming-mission"},"modified":"2024-08-18T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T22:26:08","slug":"the-first-spacex-spacewalk-what-the-polaris-dawn-commander-says-about-the-bold-upcoming-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/the-first-spacex-spacewalk-what-the-polaris-dawn-commander-says-about-the-bold-upcoming-mission","title":{"rendered":"The first SpaceX spacewalk: What the Polaris Dawn commander says about the bold upcoming mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-spacex-spacewalk-what-the-polaris-dawn-commander-says-about-the-bold-upcoming-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Polaris Dawn mission \u2014 the first of three flights billionaire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/FOUR&__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&par=OTS&doc=108004713\">Shift4<\/a> founder Jared Isaacman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/14\/jared-isaacman-buys-private-spacex-flights-for-polaris-program.html?__source=OTS%7Cfinance%7Cinline%7Cstory%7C&par=OTS&doc=108004713\">purchased from SpaceX in 2022<\/a> for his human spaceflight effort known as the Polaris Program \u2014 is set to launch from Florida in the early hours of Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t get the freedom of any time of day to launch but I think it\u2019ll work out to [be]<strong> <\/strong>pretty close to dawn, which is very appropriate given the mission,\u201d Isaacman told<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/lander?id=investinginspace-newsletter\"> CNBC\u2019s Investing in Space<\/a> during an interview last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polaris Dawn mission \u2014 the first of three flights billionaire and Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman purchased from SpaceX in 2022 for his human spaceflight effort known as the Polaris Program \u2014 is set to launch from Florida in the early hours of Aug. 26. \u201cWe don\u2019t get the freedom of any time of day [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}