ThePolaris Dawn missionlaunched on Tuesday at 5:23 a.m.
ET on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The spacewalk is scheduled for Thursday at 2:23 a.m.
The Dragon spacecraft at 870 miles above Earth.SpaceX
ET, and will be live-streamed on the SpaceXwebsiteand the companys Xaccount.
Two crew members will hop out of the Dragon spacecraft and into the vacuum of space.
However, it wont just be 50% of the crew bracing themselves for the spacewalk.
That means the entire crew will don their spacesuits for survival for the duration of the extravehicular activity.
SpaceX designed new spacesuits just for this occasion.
The missions research mostly has to do with astronaut health and preparing crews for long-duration missions.
One of the missions tasks is to test the effects of the regions radiation on astronaut health.
Polaris Dawn is the first of three private missions purchased by Isaacman.
Depending on how this one goes, the next two will hopefully be just as exciting.
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