WASHINGTON – A pioneering private crew made history Thursday with the first-ever spacewalk by non-professional astronauts, marking a giant leap forward for the commercial space industry.
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, led by fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman, launched early Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, journeying deeper into the cosmos than any humans in the past 50 years, since the Apollo program.
Then, with their Dragon spaceship’s elliptical orbit reduced to a low point of roughly 120 miles and a high of 430 miles, pure oxygen began flowing into their suits,…
SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew begins historic private spacewalk
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