SpaceX pulled off its first spacewalk in the early hours of Thursday morning, in a historic first for a company.
  • SpaceX pulled off its first private spacewalk.
  • Two members of the Polaris Dawn mission’s crew — Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis — stepped outside of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, protected from the harsh environment of space by the company’s suits.
  • Isaacman and Gillis spent about seven minutes each outside the capsule, with a focus on testing the mobility of the spacesuits.
  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Oh I know! It turns out space suits are just really tricky. I was hoping to see some innovation and improvements in mobility from SpaceX, but, not so much apparently. I guess we’ll have to wait for NASA’s xEMU for any real improvement.