Key Points
The Polaris Dawn mission made history on September 12, 2024, as billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis conducted the first-ever private spacewalk in the history of spaceflight...
This historic event differed significantly from traditional spacewalks on the International Space Station (ISS) and marked a crucial step in advancing private space exploration...
Unlike ISS spacewalks, which typically last 6-7 hours and involve complex tasks outside the station, the Polaris Dawn extravehicular activity (EVA) was brief, with each astronaut spending only about 12 minutes outside the spacecraft...
A key difference in the spacewalk conducted by the Polaris Dawn mission crew was the absence of an airlock...
While ISS astronauts use a dedicated airlock to transition between pressurised and vacuum environments, the Crew Dragon capsule had to be entirely depressurised for the Polaris Dawn spacewalk...
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