SpaceX employee, tech billionaire conduct first spacewalk in Polaris mission

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00:00730 kilometres from Earth, Jared Isaacman is stress-testing his brand new spacesuit.

00:09Peering out from the Crew Dragon capsule, he shared his first impressions.

00:13Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a

00:18perfect world.

00:19He's the first private citizen to ever walk in space, the climax of a daring mission.

00:26With less than three years to prepare, the tech billionaire led a crew of four, as far

00:30as 1,400 kilometres from Earth, aboard a SpaceX vessel, the furthest humans have been since

00:36the moon landings.

00:38The Dragon spaceship then lowered its altitude and depressurised its cabin before Isaacman

00:43popped out of the hat for just over ten minutes, followed by crewmate Sarah Gillis.

00:49The vessel has no airlock, meaning everything inside, including the two other crew members,

00:53was also exposed to the elements.

00:55It's as risky as every space mission. To give an idea, for example, the Crew Dragon

01:00capsule has been certified by NASA because SpaceX demonstrated that there can be just

01:06one bad event every 300 flights. Nobody would take a plane with one bad event every 300

01:12flights.

01:13Isaacman bankrolled the mission, estimated to have cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

01:18He did it to help SpaceX further its quest to put man on Mars.

01:22I imagine, you know, a lot of people someday in the future are going to be, you know, maybe

01:26even families bouncing around on the lunar surface in their, in their EVA, in their SpaceX

01:30EVA suits, certainly possible.

01:32The spacewalk is only part of the adventure. The Polaris Dawn mission is also testing a

01:37laser communications system and studying the effects of decompression and radiation on

01:41the human body.

01:43The first spacewalks were in 1965. Until now, only the Russian, Chinese and American space

01:49agencies have achieved the feat.

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