Two days after launching, the astronauts made further history: Becoming the first nonprofessional astronauts to open the hatch of their vehicle and expose themselves to the vacuum of space.

With the Polaris Dawn EVA underway, mission commander Jared Isaacman has exited the spacecraft, using SpaceX's Skywalker mobility platform to secure himself as he floats in the vacuum of space.

The Polaris Dawn mission made history as it reached ... exposing the group to the vacuum of space. Isaacman and Gillis exited the vehicle for roughly 10 minutes each, carrying out a series of ...

After five days in orbit, the Polaris Dawn mission, which conducted the world's first commercial spacewalk, has returned safely to Earth. At 3:36 am EDT, the Dragon capsule Resilience splashed ...

This was followed by the opening of the main parachutes minutes later as the spacecraft carrying the Polaris Dawn crew slowed its decent towards the water early Sunday. Cheers erupted from the ...

This was Isaacman’s second chartered flight with SpaceX, with two more still ahead under his personally financed space exploration program named Polaris after the North Star. He paid an ...

15 (UPI) --SpaceX's Polaris Dawn early Sunday splashed down ... the entire interior was exposed to the vacuum of space during the spacewalk. They worse special spacesuits. In November 2020 ...

By Yan Zhuang After conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk and traveling farther from Earth than anyone in more than half a century, the astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission returned to ...

Polaris Dawn was the first of three missions of the Polaris Program. Polaris Dawn was the gate-opener mission to the larger Polaris Program, a set of at least three anticipated missions bankrolled ...

The riskiest part of the journey may be over, but the Polaris Dawn crew still has a key milestone ahead: coming home. The team is set to return to Earth, splashing down off the coast of Florida ...

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is beginning its fifth ... SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis — was exposed to the vacuum of space. Isaacman and Gillis then exited the vehicle for roughly ...