Unlike the International Space Station, the Dragon spacecraft is not equipped with an airlock.
ThePolaris Dawn missionlaunched on Tuesday at 5:23 a.m.
ET on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Billionaire Jared Isaacman emerging from Dragon.SpaceX
Its the first of three private missions on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft purchased by tech entrepreneur Isaacman.
The mission set out to accomplish many firsts.
One of the missions tasks is to test the effects of the regions radiation on astronaut health.
Thursdays spacewalk, the first in commercial spaceflight, pushed private astronauts far beyond the usual suborbital trips.
Yet for those of us watching from home, space still feels like a distant fantasy.
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