SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew makes history with first private spacewalk, watch!

A team of four astronauts on Thursday performed first private spacewalk in orbit from a SpaceX capsule as a part of the Polaris Dawn mission donning new series of spacesuits. It marked the debut of the first-ever extravehicular activity (EVA) utilizing commercially developed equipment, innovative procedures, and the brand-new SpaceX EVA suit. "Building a base on the Moon and a city on Mars will require thousands of spacesuits. The development of this suit, and the EVA performed on this mission, will be important steps toward a scalable design for spacesuits on future long-duration missions," Elon Musk's SpaceX said in a post on X.

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[vladtepesh]

Kind of weird when the last launch if I'm not mistaken, the first stage blew up and threw the 2nd stage into its altitude, and they hailed that as a success. Also ummm Elon is doing what was called the Apollo 5 mission. You know what they did in the 60's ...with slide rulers... un dunno man....smells kinda fishy...

[kensuccii]

How is that a space walk when he jus pops out his head out of the capsule

[tylerdurden]

Fyi, not leaving the doorway or the craft is not a spacewalk. 🤷🤣