SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew makes first private spacewalk

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn Crew executed the first ever private spacewalk Thursday morning. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood has more.

[NEOGEONEO]

Was it necesary to say he was a billionaire?

[silentlurker]

"Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement" -Red Hot Chili Peppers

[chadntm]

all this excitement is really starting to make me wonder about the moon landing....

[reecom]

The reason for the high orbit in 50 years is to avoid lower orbit debris. The two women aboard might have set the record for the highest orbit in space for women.

[reecom]

Going outside must have felt like standing on the top of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, with only the handrail and umbilical cord holding you back. The fear of drifting into deep space and not being able to get back in must have been a “White Knuckle” experience!

[vwaudiwelder]

I think it is pretty amusing that only two of the astronauts are going for a space walk and not each of them. I most certainly would want to pop my head out that cap if I were already all the way up there.

[KlingbergWingMkII]

Not a spacewalk at all! That was a space standing. Over promoted!

[lidoz]

And this is the guy the government want you to be out of auditing them..

[theblockchainclub]

My Nokia 3310 can make better video shots then this 😂

[brain]

nothing better than watching a billionaire make a fool of himself, seems to be a trend

[Arhabeditz]

100 years of SpaceX : We just send a team of humans in proxima Centauri B 😂😂

[tomrobinson]

No space walk. Put his head out a sun roof. Elon is a joke.

[HolyFuzzyM.G]

🌟 They are not in dead space! Because radiation and fly space junk!! They are still in the earths protection! Unless they have laser cannons to defect incoming projectiles... i dont think so! 🌟 So apparently, money buys you years experience!! 🌟

[securityrobot]

Very ‘private’, in front of the whole of Mankind!

[iouel]

It's all a hoax; Idaho is Jormungandr's head.

[fatcole]

Amazing. They managed to do the thing that we've already been doing for nearly 60 years. Quite an achievement

[imulchapeach]

Hopefully the billionaire will also invest in carbon offsets for this gauche extravagance. A hefty excise tax such trips would benefit the Earthbound 99.999% of humanity.

[ignatzmuskrat]

We have two astronauts stranded in space and Leon sends his billionaire pal and company into orbit to do some fancy boardwalk struttin' of their new suits! Can we get the fundamentals down first before we dude ourselves up for a night on the town?

[averythompkins]

JESUS loves you so much, and if you believe on HIM, you will be saved. Out of love for HIM, turn from your sins and obey HIM. :)