SpaceX Polaris Dawn Astronauts Complete First Commercial Spacewalk

Jared Isaacman, a 41-year-old fintech billionaire, chartered the Polaris Dawn mission, a commercial spaceflight led by SpaceX. Isaacman and his crew, including Sarah Gillis, 30, conducted a spacewalk, with Gillis performing movement tests to assess the space suit's performance in space. This marks the first commercially funded spacewalk, previously only done by astronauts with government-funded space agencies. The Polaris Dawn mission reached an orbit of 434 miles (700 kilometers) and is part of a five-day trip to a distance further from Earth than any crewed voyage since the Apollo program in 1972.