Crew of 'Polaris Dawn' mission come to Colorado for some training

Published: Feb 03, 2023 Duration: 00:02:59 Category: News & Politics

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It's minus 15 degrees and the sky over Colorado Springs and the all civilian Polaris Dawn astronauts are in a freefall. They've come to the Air Force Academy to train with the elite wings of Blue Cadet parachute team incredible. The craziest emotions ever. Jared Isaacman is the Polaris Don commander. A veteran pilot who once owned his own fleet of Mig fighter jets, he led the inspiration for mission in 2021. Three days of orbiting the Earth in a SpaceX spaceship? Ohh my gosh, while raising a stunning quarter of a billion dollars for Cancer Research at Saint Jude Children's Hospital. And he'll keep raising money. He's now bought three more trips into space. What does liftoff like? What does it feel like? I mean, it's an incredible sensation, but it it just races by like time melts away. His new all civilian crew, former Thunderbird pilot Scott Poteet. Medical Officer Anna Menon and Mission specialist Sarah Gillis. What's impressed me in the year that since we met, you guys seem so much like a team, you seem so together. Does it feel like that? There. There's no question. I think. I think we largely felt that way day one. And we've we've really only improved upon it considerably. I mean, like the, the best day of training is when the four of us are together, no matter what we're doing. So you're pretty tight. Oh yeah. They've spent a lot of stressful time together. Climbing a volcano in Ecuador, camping in extreme conditions, nauseating G force centrifuge, training, a practice skydive at I fly, and now here. This is all about team building bonding. Before this crew travels further than any other astronauts since Apollo, I think at the end of the day we need to know each other almost intuitively. Their new five day mission will include experiments for 23 universities, a higher orbit than any human crew since Apollo, and incredibly, the 1st all civilian Space Walk in an all new space suit. I don't think I could have imagined something this. Big or grand, I. Even a year and a half ago, I don't think I could have imagined this happening. Why do this? Why do you feel the need to go on to space personally? Well, I've accumulated some vacation time in my day job. So did we mention Jared is a 38 year old self-made billionaire who started a company that handles credit card transactions, but going big in space is his real passion. And what do you think about when you look into the blackness of space? I think that's where we need to go and it's just our destiny to go out there and. Explore and unlock the secrets of the universe, and it all starts with a jump.

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