{"id":788868,"date":"2024-09-12T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788868"},"modified":"2024-09-12T07:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:00:53","slug":"polaris-dawn-latest-spacex-crew-complete-first-ever-stand-up-civilian-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788868","title":{"rendered":"Polaris Dawn latest: SpaceX crew complete first ever &#8216;stand-up&#8217; civilian spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Jared Isaacman looks out of the Dragon Capsule\u2019s hatch<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">SpaceX<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX made history today as its private astronauts conducted the first ever civilian spacewalk as part of its Polaris Dawn mission.<\/p>\n<p>Two astronauts partially exited a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, one at a time, as it orbited Earth at a speed of more than 25,000 kilometres per hour and an altitude of around 740 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>The crew of four began venting air from the cabin at 1031 GMT and finally opened the hatch manually at around 1050 GMT. All wore SpaceX\u2019s new spacesuit model, which has been thoroughly tested on Earth but never in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Isaacman, mission commander for the flight and the head of SpaceX\u2019s Polaris programme and its billionaire co-funder, was the first to exit the spacecraft and look down on Earth. \u201cFrom here it sure looks like a perfect world,\u201d said Isaacman as he raised his head and torso from the capsule.<\/p>\n<p>\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch live: SpaceX&#039;s Polaris Dawn mission prepares for first ever civilian spacewalk\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2uA2QG0Au0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n    <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Isaacman then carried out a range of checks on the mobility and safety of his spacesuit before returning to his seat inside the craft after several minutes. Following this, the Crew Dragon fired its thrusters to sustain an optimal orbit, and then SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis made her spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"js-content-prompt-opportunity\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Neither Icaacman nor Gillis fully left the craft, making the event technically a stand-up extravehicular activity (SEVA) than a full EVA. Previous SpaceX promotional material for the mission had shown an astronaut fully outside the Crew Dragon capsule.<\/p>\n<p>Every previous spacewalk ever conducted until today has been performed by government-trained astronauts, while the crew of Polaris Dawn are all private civilians. Along with Isaacman and Gillis, the rest of the crew consisted of retired US Air Force test pilot Scott Poteet and SpaceX engineer Anna Menon.<\/p>\n<p>Isaacman was also part of a previous groundbreaking SpaceX flight in 2021 \u2013 aboard the very same Crew Dragon capsule used in the latest mission \u2013 which was the first orbital spaceflight with only civilians aboard.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Polaris Dawn mission was one of the riskiest spacewalks ever attempted, harking back to the early space programme of the 1960s and 1970s because the Crew Dragon capsule lacks an airlock.<\/p>\n<p>With the EVA complete, the rest of the Polaris Dawn mission will see the crew spend up to two more days in orbit before returning to Earth.<\/p>\n<section class=\"ArticleTopics\">\n<p class=\"ArticleTopics__Heading\">Topics:<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2447713-spacex-polaris-dawn-crew-complete-stand-up-civilian-spacewalk\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Isaacman looks out of the Dragon Capsule\u2019s hatch SpaceX SpaceX made history today as its private astronauts conducted the first ever civilian spacewalk as part of its Polaris Dawn&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/788869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}