TECH - Polaris Dawn Crew Including Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman Don SpaceX Spacesuits Designed For Spacewalks Ahead Of Mission: 'Profound Feeling' | Benzinga
Polaris Dawn crew recently wore SpaceX‘s newly developed EVA spacesuit for the first time in a vacuum environment and performed a series of spacesuit acceptance rests in preparation for a spacewalk during their upcoming mission.
What Happened: The tests, which included familiarising with how the spacesuit performs in a vacuum, marked the final significant test milestone for the spacesuit. The spacesuits are upgraded versions of the intravehicular spacesuits designed for extravehicular activity.
The testing of the spacesuits was held at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas between June 24 and 28 using a historic chamber facility used to test spacesuits during the Gemini and Apollo space programs.
"It was a profound feeling for our crew to conduct operations in the same vacuum chambers that supported the Gemini and Apollo programs in the 1960s," the upcoming Mission’s Commander and Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman said about the spacesuit testing experience.