02:00Mandatory credit: SpaceX
The crew members of SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' have completed their historic first-ever commercial walk in space on Thursday.
Footage published by the tech company shows the astronauts sitting inside the capsule's cabin before the walk for all necessary preparations, before Jared Isaacman, codename 'EV1', and Sarah Gillis, codename 'EV2' emerged and performed mobility demonstrations. The stunning view of Earth and the boundless space they took in during the spacewalk can be seen.
The mission was closely monitored by the launch control room back on Earth, as crowds eagerly awaited the walk and applauded wildly as 'EV1' and 'EV2' passed into space.
Earlier in the day the walk had been postponed due to airlock issues. The astronauts eventually began their mission, with Isaacman climbing out from the capsule followed by Gillis 15 minutes later.
"Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world," said the mission commander as he climbed out of the hatch.
On Tuesday, the 'Polaris Dawn' spacecraft began its flight into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The crew received more than two years of intense training ahead of the mission, which involved skydiving as well as hundreds of hours in simulators, and even tasks performed on top of a volcano in Ecuador.
The four-member team is led by American billionaire Isaacman, who has a long-standing partnership with SpaceX and was appointed mission commander. The team includes SpaceX Lead Space Operations Engineer Gillis, her engineer colleague Anna Menon and former US Air Force pilot Scott 'Kidd' Poteet.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to X, formerly Twitter to discuss the mission. "The @PolarisProgram astronaut mission is headed for an altitude three times higher than the Space Station, the furthest that humans have been from Earth in over half a century!" he wrote.
The spacewalk is the first to have been commercially funded, with previous missions conducted by government-funded astronauts.
In addition to the spacewalk, Polaris aims to conduct 36 scientific experiments on the effects of space and radiation on human health.
How's the view up there? SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' crew completes first-ever commercial spacewalk
The crew members of SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' have completed their historic first-ever commercial walk in space on Thursday.
Footage published by the tech company shows the astronauts sitting inside the capsule's cabin before the walk for all necessary preparations, before Jared Isaacman, codename 'EV1', and Sarah Gillis, codename 'EV2' emerged and performed mobility demonstrations. The stunning view of Earth and the boundless space they took in during the spacewalk can be seen.
The mission was closely monitored by the launch control room back on Earth, as crowds eagerly awaited the walk and applauded wildly as 'EV1' and 'EV2' passed into space.
Earlier in the day the walk had been postponed due to airlock issues. The astronauts eventually began their mission, with Isaacman climbing out from the capsule followed by Gillis 15 minutes later.
"Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world," said the mission commander as he climbed out of the hatch.
On Tuesday, the 'Polaris Dawn' spacecraft began its flight into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The crew received more than two years of intense training ahead of the mission, which involved skydiving as well as hundreds of hours in simulators, and even tasks performed on top of a volcano in Ecuador.
The four-member team is led by American billionaire Isaacman, who has a long-standing partnership with SpaceX and was appointed mission commander. The team includes SpaceX Lead Space Operations Engineer Gillis, her engineer colleague Anna Menon and former US Air Force pilot Scott 'Kidd' Poteet.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to X, formerly Twitter to discuss the mission. "The @PolarisProgram astronaut mission is headed for an altitude three times higher than the Space Station, the furthest that humans have been from Earth in over half a century!" he wrote.
The spacewalk is the first to have been commercially funded, with previous missions conducted by government-funded astronauts.
In addition to the spacewalk, Polaris aims to conduct 36 scientific experiments on the effects of space and radiation on human health.
Mandatory credit: SpaceX
The crew members of SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' have completed their historic first-ever commercial walk in space on Thursday.
Footage published by the tech company shows the astronauts sitting inside the capsule's cabin before the walk for all necessary preparations, before Jared Isaacman, codename 'EV1', and Sarah Gillis, codename 'EV2' emerged and performed mobility demonstrations. The stunning view of Earth and the boundless space they took in during the spacewalk can be seen.
The mission was closely monitored by the launch control room back on Earth, as crowds eagerly awaited the walk and applauded wildly as 'EV1' and 'EV2' passed into space.
Earlier in the day the walk had been postponed due to airlock issues. The astronauts eventually began their mission, with Isaacman climbing out from the capsule followed by Gillis 15 minutes later.
"Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world," said the mission commander as he climbed out of the hatch.
On Tuesday, the 'Polaris Dawn' spacecraft began its flight into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The crew received more than two years of intense training ahead of the mission, which involved skydiving as well as hundreds of hours in simulators, and even tasks performed on top of a volcano in Ecuador.
The four-member team is led by American billionaire Isaacman, who has a long-standing partnership with SpaceX and was appointed mission commander. The team includes SpaceX Lead Space Operations Engineer Gillis, her engineer colleague Anna Menon and former US Air Force pilot Scott 'Kidd' Poteet.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to X, formerly Twitter to discuss the mission. "The @PolarisProgram astronaut mission is headed for an altitude three times higher than the Space Station, the furthest that humans have been from Earth in over half a century!" he wrote.
The spacewalk is the first to have been commercially funded, with previous missions conducted by government-funded astronauts.
In addition to the spacewalk, Polaris aims to conduct 36 scientific experiments on the effects of space and radiation on human health.