Polaris Dawn mission
Groundbreaking Spacewalk by Private Crew Pushes Commercial Spaceflight Forward
Two astronauts, a billionaire and an engineer, completed the world's first private spacewalk on Thursday outside a SpaceX capsule, marking a significant achievement in commercial spaceflight. Wearing newly designed spacesuits, they ventured outside the Crew Dragon capsule, a task previously reserved for astronauts from national space agencies, Reuters reports.
SpaceX Makes History: First-Ever Spacewalk by Private Astronauts – ‘From Here, It Looks Like a Perfect World’
The most significant part of their mission was carried out today by the crew members of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission: they conducted the first-ever spacewalk by private astronauts.
The mission’s crew consists of 41-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, 50-year-old former Air Force commander Scott Poteet, and SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis, 30, and Anna Menon, 38.