Polaris Dawn will involve the following four crew members: Isaacman as the mission commander, Scott “Kidd” Poteet as the mission pilot, Sarah Gillis as a mission specialist, and Anna Menon as both a mission specialist and the mission’s medical officer. Assuming everything goes as planned, Polaris explains the mission will involve SpaceX’s Dragon crew capsule, which will launch from the Kennedy Space Center on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket.
Once in space, the crew will spend up to five days working to meet the mission’s various objectives, including (hopefully) performing the first commercial spacewalk utilizing SpaceX’s EVA spacesuits. That won’t be the only potential milestone set by the mission, however, as it will also likely “reach the highest Earth orbit ever flown,” Polaris Program said as part of its announcement.
Beyond its research objectives, which will include studying a space-related vision problem called spaceflight associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS), the crew will also be the first to test a laser communications system based on SpaceX’s Starlink. Many of these objectives will contribute data with future long-term space missions in mind, including ones that may result in humans establishing a presence on Mars. Polaris specifically points toward the EVA spacesuits, communications test, and each research objective as necessary efforts to help space agencies and private companies prepare for crewed missions into deep space.
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