American billionaire Jared Isaacman, organizer and sponsor of the private commercial mission Polaris Dawn, said this will happen from summer 2024 at the earliest. Among other things, they plan to perform the first spacewalk during a commercial spaceflight.

Polaris Dawn was announced in 2022 and took on quite ambitious tasks. First, the Crew Dragon ship, with four astronauts on each boat, will need to enter a 1,400-kilometer orbit, thereby breaking the record set by the Gemini 11 mission in 1966, which reached an altitude of 1,372 kilometers (Apollo’s distance). expeditions, but they did so not in Earth orbit, but during flights to the Moon).

Second, they want to conduct more than 35 scientific experiments to study the impact of increasing cosmic radiation levels on the health of astronauts. Thirdly, they will perform a spacewalk at an altitude of approximately 500 kilometers.

For the last mission, they plan to use spacesuits created by SpaceX. But the launch of Polaris Dawn, planned for spring 2024, has now been postponed to mid-year, apparently due to a lack of spacesuits.