2024-09-25 19:32:35
Millionaire Jared Isaacman, one of the four crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission, became the first private individual to perform a spacewalk on Thursday.
Four people, two men and two women, make up the civilian crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, which this Thursday, September 12, marked an unprecedented milestone, after starring in the first private space walk in history.
The milestone, which was followed by millions of people through X, marked the furthest spacewalk from Earth in half a centuryand it carried the risk that in order to achieve their purpose the astronauts would have to cross a region of space known as the Van Allen Belt, the one that presents high levels of radiation.
The mission was made up of the millionaire Jared Isaacman; former US Air Force pilot Scott Poteet, and SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis.
Two of the crew members performed the space walk
The first to go out into the vacuum of space to perform a spacewalk was Jared Isaacman, who remained outside for ten minutes.At home we have a lot of work to do (…) But from here, the Earth looks like a perfect world“He said as he stood outside the ship.
After the billionaire returned to the ship, it was the engineer’s turn. Sarah Gillis, who spent another ten minutes enjoying her walk through outer space.
After the walk, which lasted just under two hours, the owner of SpaceX and the social network X, Elon Musk congratulated the crew members.
Watch below the video shared by X of the Live broadcast of the first private spacewalk.
Watch Dragon’s first spacewalk with the @PolarisProgram’s Polaris Dawn crew
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 12, 2024