Have space suit, will travel. On Thursday morning, Jared Isaacman, the billionaire founder of payments company Shift4 Payments, took the first commercial space walk as part of the Polaris Dawn mission, in collaboration with Elon Musk's SpaceX. He looked extremely cool doing it.
That's not just because everyone looks cool in space. Isaacman took the spacewalk in an Extravehicular Activity Suit, a brand new space suit developed over the last two and a half years by SpaceX as part of a project to create the sort of comparatively low-cost space suits that could one day be worn by humans on missions to other planets.
