Polaris program

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.