Watch Astronauts Conduct the First Private Spacewalk

On Thursday, astronauts from the Polaris Program conducted the first ever commercial spacewalk. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.

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00:00One small step for man, one giant leap for private industry.

00:04On Thursday, astronauts from the Polaris program conducted the first ever commercial spacewalk.

00:09According to the New York Times, this project is a collaboration between Elon Musk's SpaceX

00:14and billionaire Jared Isaacman. Isaacman was on the mission himself and was the first of two

00:19crew members to briefly exit the space capsule. The second was SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis.

00:25The Times says Isaacman and Gillis were outside the capsule for less than 10 minutes each.

00:30Spacewalks are a common feature of governmental space travel. Here we see NASA astronauts

00:35installing a solar array on the International Space Station in 2022. But this Polaris mission

00:40is part of a continuing expansion into outer space by private individuals and companies.