As part of the Polaris Dawn mission, astronauts Jared Isaacman and SpaceX's Anna Menon completed the first commercial spacewalk in spaceflight history earlier today. Isaacman and Menon took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier this week, after which they became the first crew to reach an altitude of 1,408 kilometers since the Gemini program and the farthest humans from space since NASA's Apollo Moon missions of the 1970s. Before and since then, the astronauts were acclimatizing themselves to the harsh environment of space in order to prepare for today's spacewalk as part of what SpaceX calls a […]
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