“Leon” Musk’s SpaceX on Tuesday successfully launched its first ever spacewalk mission, dubbed “Polaris Dawn” the rocket lifting off at 5:23 AM EDT from Cape Canaveral in Florida, CNN reports.
The mission, crewed by billionaire Jared Isaacman, former US Air Force pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet, and SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis, is pretty fucking risky. To accomplish the spacewalk, the inside of the vessel will be exposed to vacuum – there’s not airlock on the Crew Dragon – a potential threat to oxygen supplies and possibly causing leaks of hazardous chemicals from the equipment within – if they can even lock the hatch again. There’s also the possibility that weather early next week may delay the return, and there’s only enough air for about seven days.
So yeah, good luck to these folks willingly putting their lives in the hands of a company run by a ketamine-brained maniac who thinks Haitian migrants are stealing cats and eating them.