Mission commander Jared Isaacman emerges from Crew Dragon during the Polaris Dawn spacewalk on Sept. 12, 2024. Credit: SpaceX The first-ever commercial spacewalk is in the books! Last month on Sept. 12, SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission took four astronauts on a five-day...
Image: Astronaut Ed White became the first American to conduct a “spacewalk” in the vast emptiness of space on June 3, 1965 during Gemini IV. Commander James McDivitt, his mission counterpart, captured this photo of him outside the space craft over the Pacific...