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In this photo taken on Sept. 16, 1993, NASA astronauts James H. Newman (left), and Carl E. Walz evaluate procedures and gear for an upcoming Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission with the Caribbean Sea and part of the Bahama Islands chain in view. Newman and Walz’s spacewalk, part of the STS-51 mission, lasted seven hours, […]
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The fifth anniversary of the first all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina H. Koch and Jessica U. Meir seems like a good time to tell the story of women spacewalkers. Since the first woman stepped outside a spacecraft in 1984, 23 women from four nationalities have participated in 61 spacewalks. These women made significant contributions […]
WASHINGTON: Two astronauts, a billionaire and an engineer, completed the first private spacewalk in orbit on Thursday outside a SpaceX capsule. They wore a new type of spacesuit in a high-risk feat once limited to astronauts from government space agencies. As part of the Polaris Dawn mission, the astronauts each spent about 10 minutes outside […]
Jared Isaacman looks out of the Dragon capsule’s hatch SpaceX SpaceX made history today as its private astronauts conducted the first ever civilian spacewalk as part of its Polaris Dawn mission. Two astronauts partially exited a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, one at a time, as it orbited Earth at a speed of more than 25,000 […]
Polaris Dawn launch SpaceX SpaceX has launched its Polaris Dawn mission to attempt the first ever civilian spacewalk, and one of the riskiest spacewalks ever attempted. The four crew will now spend up to five days in orbit around Earth, with the spacewalk – or extravehicular activity (EVA) – of two members occurring on the […]
The four crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission SpaceX SpaceX is getting ready to execute the first ever civilian spacewalk. Until now, every time a human has left their spacecraft to venture into the void of space it has been a government-trained astronaut – but the Polaris Dawn mission, scheduled to launch on 30 […]