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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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On 8/24/2024 4:04 PM, Kyonshi wrote:
> On 8/24/2024 9:25 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> “SpaceX Is Sending a Tech Billionaire Into Orbit to Test Starlink, 
>> Walk Around”
>>
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-is-sending-a-tech-billionaire-into- 
>> orbit-to-test-starlink-walk-around
>>
>> “The five-day mission, dubbed Polaris Dawn, leaves on Tuesday and will 
>> venture 870 miles from Earth, farther than anyone has been since the 
>> 1972 Apollo moon program.”
>>
>> Gonna test those new light weight, extra mobile $200,000 space suits.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
> 
> yeah, because a tech billionaire is exactly the kind of person I want 
> testing equipment in a deeply hazardous environment.

This is his second trip to space.  He is actually paying for the trip 
out of his pocket.

Lynn