SpaceX testing for metahuman genes via historic space mission later this month.

Dear Lord. This is absolutely correct: the article reads like a superhero team’s origin story. Or villain teams’.

When billionaire Jared Isaacman self-funded a mission to orbit Earth in 2021, the project was billed as a childhood cancer fundraiser — and made for an eye-popping entrance into the private space tourism world. The four-person crew of people from various backgrounds with no prior spaceflight experience spent three days orbiting Earth together in a 13-foot-wide SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

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On Monday, Isaacman and three crewmates — including his close friend and former Air Force pilot, Scott “Kidd” Poteet, as well as two SpaceX engineers, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis — will arrive at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for the launch of a far grander, more dangerous, and experimental trip to space.

Private spacecraft, scientific experimentation, radiation belts, novel exposures to vacuum, spacewalks, testing out new procedures, automated landing protocols in case the crew mutates into a quartet of individuals with strange new abilities – it’s all there, friends. It’s all there. One wonders if they had a checklist because, you know. Just in case.