SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew completes first private spacewalk [Video]

Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 integrated payment processing solutions, participated in the first ever private spacewalk by a group of astronauts who left a SpaceX capsule after a delay of a few hours, testing a new line of spacesuits in the company’s riskiest mission yet.

Along with the billionaire entrepreneur is a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees. The four have been orbiting Earth aboard Crew Dragon since Tuesday’s pre-dawn launch from Florida of the Polaris Dawn mission.

Isaacman “egressed Dragon” and conducted his first “suit mobility tests that will test overall hand body control, vertical movement with Skywalker, and foot restraint,” according to a SpaceX post on X at 6:53 a.m.

“Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, work sure looks like a perfect world,” Isaacman said during his first views outside the Dragon. Minutes later, he said “it’s gorgeous.”

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