A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform one of the riskiest maneuvers in space, a spacewalk.
Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out of the SpaceX spacecraft around 15 minutes apart, wearing specially-designed suits.
Isaacman says back at home they all have a lot of work to do, but from here Earth sure looks like a perfect world.
It was commercially funded by him and before, only astronauts with government-funded space agencies had done a spacewalk.
Images broadcast live showed the two crew emerge from the white Dragon capsule to float 700km above the blue Earth below.
Isaacman emerged first, wiggling his limbs, hands, and feet to test his suit, and returned inside the hatch, Gillis, who works for SpaceX, then climbed out.
Both crew narrated their spacewalk, describing how their suits performed outside of the craft.
Source BBC News
