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Two private astronauts took a spacewalk Thursday morning—yes, it was historic | "Today’s success represents a giant leap forward for the commercial space industry."
"Today’s success represents a giant leap forward for the commercial space industry."
The Polaris Dawn mission took a firm step into the future on Thursday morning when two private citizens, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, briefly ventured outside their Dragon spacecraft. Funded by Isaacman, the mission spurred a frenetic two-year period of spacesuit development, testing, and simulations by the California company to reach Thursday's remarkably smooth operations. Connected to Dragon by an umbilical providing oxygen and thermal control, Isaacman purposefully ran through a series of tests of the spacesuit's mobility.
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