On September 12, 2024, SpaceX’s Polaris Daybreak astronauts accomplished the primary business spacewalk in historical past. The historic second was live-streamed as Commander Jared Isaacman and mission specialist Sarah Gillis every crawled out of the area capsule excessive above Earth. Now we’ve got new views of the mission in images shared by the Polaris Program.
The four-person crew traveled 875 miles above our planet (the very best orbit reached since NASA’s Apollo program) in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule referred to as “Resilience.” Isaacman and Gillis have been joined on the mission by medical officer Anna Menon and mission pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet who remained within the spacecraft throughout the spacewalk. The crew spent five days in orbit conducting analysis and experiments earlier than safely splashing down off the coast of Florida.
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