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PREVIEW: #SPACEX: SPACEWALK: Conversation with Bob Zimmerman re the upcoming Jared Isaacman private mission on a SpaceX Dragon capsule that will include two spacewalks -- in order to advance the case for a Hubble repair mission. More tomorrow.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

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PREVIEW: #SPACEX: SPACEWALK: Conversation with Bob Zimmerman re the upcoming Jared Isaacman private mission on a SpaceX Dragon capsule that will include two spacewalks -- in order to advance the case for a Hubble repair mission. More tomorrow.

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0:00.0

This is a conversation with my good friend Bob Zimmerman about an upcoming mission private enterprise,

0:07.4

SpaceX having one of its dragon capsules flown by Jared Isaacman who pays for it all with an enormous

0:16.7

fortune that he has good for him this time however it's advancing a case for fixing Hubble.

0:25.1

As I understand, and Bob explains here, Isaacman needs to do a spacewalk.

0:30.4

So in addition to everything else a private pilot, private crew, private space capsule, they're going to do a space walk.

0:41.0

Why?

0:42.0

Hubble, Bob explains.

0:44.0

Bob Zimmerman on the upcoming

0:47.0

Jared Isaacman

0:48.0

Space Walk Mission,

0:50.0

along with everything else on a dragon capsule. No big space involved, none. A new day.

0:59.2

Here's Bob.

1:00.2

66 and it will be the farthest any human is flown from Earth since the Apollo missions.

1:07.0

Then they're going to low, that's probably the test radiation, to the radiation experiments.

1:11.0

They have some, uh, see how it, how the Van Allen belts,

1:16.7

was the Van Allen belts, because they'll go into those will affect them. But they'll, after they

1:21.8

do that for a bunch of orbits, they're going to lower the orbit down. They're going to be up for five days.

1:26.0

And at 700 miles elevation, he and one of the crew members will do spacewalks.

1:32.0

They'll open the hatch.

1:33.4

All four people will be in spacesuits because the air is going to leave the capsule.

1:37.8

And he will go out and do a spacewalk, and they'll come in and the other crew member will

1:41.8

do a spacewalk.

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