Billionaire Aeronaut Aims To Save Civilization By Spreading It To Mars
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Billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman, who headed a team of independent astronauts that just touched down from an incredible Earth-orbiting demo flight , says he aims to help safeguard human civilization by spreading it across other planets, starting with Mars.
Across a sweeping interview, Isaacman told me the tech advances he tested during his five-day Polaris Dawn mission - from the next-generation SpaceX spacesuits to the Dragon capsule specially adapted for spacewalks - are all aimed at helping humanity create outposts across the solar system.
Isaacman, who co-funded the super-speed development of SpaceX's EVA suits , predicted they will ultimately protect spacefarers across an atlas of new celestial destinations.
The new astro-gear, he told me, will "be a stepping stone to the millions of spacesuits for the Moon and Mars travellers of the future."
He shares SpaceX founder Elon Musk's vision of terraforming Mars as a million interplanetary nomads join a collective odyssey to the orange-red Martian dunes.
During the Polaris Dawn mission, Isaacman piloted the capsule through the intense radiation of the Van Allen belt in low Earth orbit, before leading a surreal spacewalk, backlit by a glowing blue globe, and then navigating the Dragon's fiery atmospheric reentry.
"Every one of the mission objectives of the Polaris Dawn flight," he says, "supports making humanity a multi-planetary species."
Just before Isaacman's launch into orbit, SpaceX creator Elon Musk told his 200 million followers on X: "The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens."
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