Two crew members of the reusable spacecraft Crew Dragon, launched into orbit with four tourists, will go into outer space on September 12, Interfax reported, citing the developer company SpaceX.
The spacecraft carried businessman Jared Isaacman, retired US Air Force pilot Scott Poteet, and engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis into space.
The publication emphasizes that the Polaris Dawn mission is the first time that non-professional astronauts are planning a private spacewalk.
Earlier, American entrepreneur Elon Musk said that the crew of the Polaris Dawn space expedition would be at the greatest distance from Earth in half a century of space flights by all countries.
The Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on September 10 at 05:24 (12:24 Moscow time). As part of the commercial Polaris Dawn mission, the spacecraft will be in near-earth orbit, where non-professional astronauts will perform the first spacewalk in history.
