Power Failed at SpaceX Ground Control During Space Tourist Mission
In September, SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission was already well underway way — when the power suddenly went out in one of the company's facilities in California. As Reuters reports, ground control lost communications with the mission's crew, which was being led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, who recently was named NASA administrator by president-elect Donald Trump. During the mission, Isaacman became the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk, venturing outside of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Fortunately, the hour-long outage never put the four astronauts at risk. Throughout, they were able to communicate with the ground via SpaceX's Starlink satellite […]
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