Live: Billionaire completes first ever private spacewalk

Live: Billionaire completes first ever private spacewalk – take another look at the great mission

Watch a live webcast of the mission of this spacewalk.

Billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman is the first non-professional astronaut to walk in space during the Polaris Dawn mission.

His first words: “Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here Earth sure looks like a perfect world,” this as he stepped out into space for the first time.

The mission, called Polaris Dawn, is the first of three funded by the founder of payments processing business Shift4.

Jared Isaacman onboard as commander alongside his close friend Scott ‘Kidd’ Poteet, who is a retired air force pilot, and two SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis.

While traveling in an elliptical orbit of ~190 x 700 km around the Earth, the Polaris Dawn crew will complete a pre-breathe process. Also perform suited mobility tests and inspections, and initiate pressurisation checkouts prior to performing a final suit leak check. Plus committing to the spacewalk.

The spacecraft will go into an orbit and eventually take them up to 870 miles (1,400km) above the planet. No human has been that far since Nasa’s Apollo programme ended in the 1970s.

The astronauts will pass through a region of space known as the Van Allen belt, which has high levels of radiation, but the crew will be protected by the spacecraft and their newly upgraded spacesuits.

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Live: Billionaire completes first ever private spacewalk

Sarah Giles - civilian space walker — Sarah Giles – civilian space walker

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