SpaceX Tests Dragon EVA In A First For Private Flight

Jared Isaacman during first commercial spacewalk

Private astronaut Jared Isaacman’s Polaris Dawn mission included the first extravehicular activity during a commercial spaceflight.

Credit: SpaceX
Through the recently completed Polaris Dawn private charter and spacewalk, SpaceX demonstrated the ability to develop, build and flight-test a growing range of technologies while gaining operational expertise for missions in low Earth orbit and beyond. Even by SpaceX’s ebullient schedules, the...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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