Two days into their mission, the Polaris Dawn crew conducted the highlight of their mission on Thursday, with Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepping outside Dragon Resilience for the first EVA by commercial astronauts. The spacewalk marks another milestone in the development of the commercial space industry.
Polaris Dawn is the first of three planned missions in Jared Isaacman’s Polaris Program. Much like NASA’s Project Gemini in the mid-1960s did for the Apollo program, this aims to build experience and develop techniques and technologies for future commercial missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.