On Sept. 12, 2024, the Polaris Dawn crew successfully completed the world’s first spacewalk – also known as an extravehicular activity (EVA) – from Dragon at 732.2 km above Earth. Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis completed the world’s first-ever commercial spacewalk in orbit.
SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn crew have completed the first commercial spacewalk!
“SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” — Mission Commander @rookisaacman during Dragon egress and seeing our planet from ~738 km pic.twitter.com/lRczSv5i4k
— Polaris (@PolarisProgram) September 12, 2024
Reference: SpaceX’s Tweet, Polaris’ Tweet