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In September 2024, a crew flying on a private spaceship opened the hatch and floated right out into space!
The Polaris Dawn astronauts completed the first private spacewalk, becoming the very first private citizens ever to open a hatch and float outside their spacecraft into open space.
They did not land on Mars, which no human mission has ever done, and they did not build a new space station either; their mission focused on testing new spacesuits in Earth orbit.
Because the spacecraft has no airlock, the whole cabin had to be emptied of air, so every crew member aboard, not just the one stepping outside, had to wear a spacesuit.
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