Billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman has become the first non-professional astronaut to walk in space.
Until now, only government-funded astronauts have walked in space
Isaacman is bankrolling the five-day Polaris Dawn mission which blasted off in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship on Tuesday
In the moment the world was waiting for, Isaacman stepped out into space on the first ever private spacewalk.
A cheer erupted from SpaceX HQ as the spacecraft hatch fully opened.
Jared Isaacman entered the vacuum of space, when he gets the final go-ahead.
On 18 March 1965, Russian astronaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov steps from the spaceship Voskhod 2 to become the first man to walk in space
He joins an exclusive club, only around 260 other people have ventured outside a spacecraft with nothing but a spacesuit between them and the vastness of the Universe.
