breaking space news the Polaris Dawn mission of spacex's crew Dragon resilience made history as it completes world's first private space walk marking the most distant Space Walk in 52 years this is a significant achievement for commercial space flight two crew members successfully led the first private extra vehicular activity on Thursday at 6:12 a.m. EDT the event took place at an altitude of 732 km above Earth advancing spacex's Ambitions for human space exploration the main goal of the spacewalk was to assess the functionality of spacex's extra vehicular activity suits designed for future missions to the moon and Mars the two crew members spent about 12 minutes outside the spacecraft in a region of space where temperature can reach minus 270° C after the spacewalk Polaris Dawn reached a record altitude of, 1400 km the highest achieved by a crude Mission since the Apollo mission