Groundbreaking Spacewalk by Private Crew Pushes Commercial Spaceflight Forward

Two astronauts, a billionaire and an engineer, completed the world’s first private spacewalk on Thursday outside a SpaceX capsule, marking a significant achievement in commercial spaceflight. Wearing newly designed spacesuits, they ventured outside the Crew Dragon capsule, a task previously reserved for astronauts from national space agencies, Reuters reports.

The spacewalk took place during the Polaris Dawn mission, with Jared Isaacman, a pilot and founder of Shift4, exiting first, followed by SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis....