SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission set for launch tomorrow

Four astronauts — Jared Isaacman, Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Sarah Gills and Anna Menon — are set to be launched into space tomorrow by a SpaceX rocket on a private Polaris Dawn mission. 

According to Space, the Polaris crew will spend over five days in orbit aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule and will soar higher than any other spacecraft has since Nasa put a stop to its Apollo mission in the 1970’s. 

Isaacman and his crew are aiming to accomplish the first ever private spacewalk and they are scheduled to launch on August 27 on a Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon capsule called Resilience. 

The spacecraft's liftoff is scheduled for a 3:38am EDT launch from Launch Complex 39A of Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida’s Cape Canaveral but SpaceX has revealed that they have a four-hour window to launch the perilous Polaris Dawn mission, as per Space. 

It still does not mean that the mission can take off anytime during the specified window but they have two additional times to launch that is 5:23am EDT and 7:09am EDT, as per SpaceX’s mission overview. 

The Dragon capsule and the Falcon 9 rocket were rolled on the launching pad by SpaceX on Saturday and a static fire of the rocket’s first stage engines was carried out the next day.