‘What a Perfect World’: First Private Spacewalk a Success (Video)
A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform one of the riskiest manoeuvres in space – a spacewalk. Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out of the SpaceX spacecraft around 15 minutes apart, starting at 11:52BST, wearing specially-designed suits. “Back at home we all have a lot of work to […]
SpaceX Launches Polaris Dawn Astronauts to Attempt World’s 1st-ever Private Spacewalk
Polaris Dawn has risen The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched early this morning (Sept. 10), with the goal of making some spaceflight history. Polaris Dawn, which aims to conduct the first-ever private spacewalk, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today at 5:23 a.m. EDT (0923 GMT) from historic Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy […]