Jared Isaacman
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.
SpaceX all-civilian orbital crew completes historic mission
Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit on Sept. 18 with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast.
Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier.
The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut.