'From here Earth sure looks like a perfect world,' said the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk
A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform a spacewalk on the only commercial mission to pull off the risky manoeuvre.
Mr Isaacman emerged first, wiggling his limbs, hands and feet to test his suit. He returned back inside the hatch, and Ms Gillis, who works for SpaceX, then climbed out.Polaris Dawn has a four-person crew. Left to right: Anna Menon, Sarah Gillis, Scott Poteet, and Jared IsaacmanAnticipation and tension grew as the crew prepared to open the hatch on the craft that has no air lock, or doorway between the vacuum outside and the rest of the spacecraft.
He is commander on the Resilience spacecraft with his close friend Scott 'Kidd' Poteet, who is a retired air force pilot, and two SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis. Extra nitrogen and oxygen tanks were installed and all four astronauts wore the suits, meaning the mission broke the record for the most people in the vacuum of space at once.The mission said it would travel up to 870 miles up in orbit - further than any human has been in space since Nasa's Apollo programme ended in the 1970s.
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