one small step for a privately funded billionaire one giant leap for space travel a historic moment for man kind back at home we all have a lot of work to do but from here birth Ser looks like a perfect world down below ground crew cheered as Daredevil Tech billionaire Jared isaacman exited the hatch of his orbiting Space X crew Dragon capsule on the world's first private space walk against a spectacular backdrop of the earth he can be seen carrying out new suit tests as part of the mission returning a few minutes later engineer Sarah Gillis took her turn in Space the four private astronauts blasted into space early on Tuesday on a 5-day Polaris Dawn Mission looks like our first clear view of planet Earth there our first of many for this mission after an actual launch space walking is considered the most dangerous part of any flight and until now the domain of just 12 countries this is a major step forward in terms of space travel for humans it also brings with it incredible risks because a lot of the technology is new a lot of it has not been fully tested in outer space the entire capsule is pressurized meaning the crew will be reliant on their space suits for oxygen with the void of space as a backdrop the crew model and test the extra vehicular suits speaking ahead of the mission Jared outlined the out of this world ambition uh they know they need Eva capability the knowledge of the operations and the suit in order to fulfill their their long-term dream of um of potentially populating another planet someday SpaceX has these huge Ambitions of getting to Mars and making life multiplanetary and in order to get there we need to start somewhere the mission was box off from start to finish with a running commentary from Elon Musk on his platform X taking humans the furthest traveled since the Apollo missions and in the words of musk himself striving to Greater Heights shout to Edward stashi trt World Earth