(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Commercial Spacewalk

(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Commercial Spacewalk

(OCTOBER-2024)

Commercial Spacewalk

• Jared Isaacman, three others take a bold leap into space history with first-ever commercial spacewalk on SpaceX Polaris dawn mission

Key highlights:

• In a historic event, a four-person crew of civilians from SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission conducted the first commercial spacewalk. 

• The crew comprises Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman, former US Air Force pilot Scott Poteet, and SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis. 

• They opened the hatch of their capsule and ventured into space, marking the first time non-government astronauts have performed this activity.

• The event is particularly notable as the mission traveled farther into space than any human since NASA’s Apollo program over 50 years ago.

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Courtesy: Science Reporter