New York: The crew of the Polaris Dawn mission completed a spacewalk on Thursday, marking the first commercial astronaut spacewalk from a commercial spacecraft, SpaceX reported.
The walk began at 6:13 a.m. Eastern Time (1013 GMT) and involved American entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, who wore newly designed SpaceX extravehicular activity suits.
The mission, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, saw the Dragon spacecraft travel 1,400 km above Earth. The crew is also conducting health and human performance research for NASA during their multi-day mission.
