SpaceX Polaris Dawn: Billionaire Jared Isaacman becomes first person to take part in private spacewalk

See a First-Person View of the First Private Spacewalk

On Tuesday, September 10th, at 5:23 a.m. EST (03:23 p.m. PST), the Polaris Dawn mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying a crew of four to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This mission is the first of three that comprise the Polaris Program, a private spaceflight program organized by entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman and financed by SpaceX. Since launching, the Resilience Crew Dragon spacecraft has flown highe…

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn makes history with first private spacewalk

Two astronauts stepped out of the SpaceX Dragon capsule to perform the world’s first private spacewalk.

Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic private spacewalk while wearing SpaceX-made suits

A crew of four private astronauts made history in the early hours of Thursday when they opened the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule and conducted the first commercial spacewalk.  The spacewalk, the riskiest part of the five-day Polaris Dawn mission, kicked off at 6:12 AM ET when oxygen started flowing into the astronauts’ spacesuits. Only two of the four crew members actually exited the vehicle, but all four had to don the new SpaceX-made su…

Polaris Dawn: SpaceX mission astronauts complete first private spacewalk

By Zachary Stieber Contributing Writer  Astronauts on Thursday performed the first private spacewalk in history, exiting SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule as it orbited hundreds of miles above Earth.  Billionaire Jared Isaacman, 41, at about 6:52 a.m. Eastern Time exited the depressurized capsule during the Polaris Dawn mission, which launched from Florida on Tuesday. The walk was delayed for several hours for unexplained reasons.  Isaacman, a pilot …

Crew of Polaris Dawn, piloted by New Hampshire man, conducts first all-civilian spacewalk in history

The first all-civilian spacewalk happened Thursday morning, with cameras taking viewers on Earth along for the trip.

Around 740 kilometers from Earth, the company SpaceX has organized the first privately financed spacewalk in history. As could be seen on a video broadcast by the space company SpaceX, the commander, US billionaire Jared Isaacman, first left the Dragon capsule through a hatch.