Photo: The First Commercial Spacewalk

Civilian astronauts on a SpaceX mission traveled more than 800 miles away from Earth.

In September, four astronauts ventured farther away from Earth (870 miles) than any human since the last Apollo mission—and NASA had basically nothing to do with it. Jared Isaacman and his civilian Polaris Dawn crew launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft. They tested new spacesuits, they worked on laser tech for Starlink, and, on day three of the five-day journey, Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis participated in the first-ever commercial spacewalk.

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[Chumby]

GoFundD could pay for each illegal alien to have a halfway roundtrip to Mars.

[rbike]

Special thanks to Joe Biden. Being technically a vegetable and unaware of your surroundings does have some benefits.

[Vernon Depner]

By the time NASA gets back to the Moon, SpaceX will have a hotel there.

[Don't look at me!]

Will they have the little bottles of shampoo?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And a co-branded McDonalds drive-thru.

[Chumby]

Kamala worked there.

[mad.casual]

Not if we keep having to stop so that everybody can get out, stretch their legs, and show off their new outfits!

[AT]

Picture proof of how anti-progressive Progressivism is.