Excellent report. I was 11 years old in 1965 when Ed White performed the first EVA by an American astronaut. That was a very impressive feat for 1965 technology. I am equally as impressed by SpaceX's Polaris Dawn EVA. Congrats to SpaceX for doing what no other commercial entity has done.
They got their psi up to 5.2 while maintaining flexibility. That beats the EMU which was 4.3 psi. The higher the psi, the less time needed for pre-breathing or decompression.
Yeah, that’s a good point to remember. They can’t use full sea level pressure because even these suits would be impossible to move effectively in, but they are using a higher pressure than other suits do! Maybe in the future we’ll have suits that can handle 6, 7, 8 psi or more…
@TallinuTV at higher pressure it will hinder the movement like an ablong balloon, in this case we would probably need to have active joints (think like kind of those exoskeletton suits for lifting heavy weights). This could help a lot with dexterity, and there is some kinds of special motors that are not that bulky but strong (research still needed, but I am not up to date). I can see this happening as much of the tech is actually there today, but the price due to manufacturing is still a bit off. Maybe we could have different tiers of space suits. Maybe like a regular one that works in the most cases, and then the rolls royse one that operates on 14 PSI and requires no pre breathing for critical operations and handles like a silk glove.
@@savagesarethebest7251 The short video spacex made that talked about the suit did seem to say they at least have shoulder and forearm twist joints that are rigid with fabric elbow joints made to bend even when pressurized. The message in that video is that they want a universal suit that handles a lot of situations. The text of the spacex tweet with the video is "The EVA suit is a scalable design with the intent to create millions to help make life multiplanetary". You can search that text to find the tweet with the video.
Private companies doing space walks! The world will never be the same. So non-spectacular visually yet so game-changing. Congrats to SpaceX and kudos for paving the way. (Also, welcome back to space Space Mike! You have been missed. :) )
Thank you for creating this video. A lot of folks didn’t understand the significance of this EVA and had expected more. Y’all did a great job explaining what this EVA was about. 👍🏻👏
Baby steps at first. Let SpaceX sort out the suits and their EVA operations and before you know it something like a Hubble service mission becomes a possibility.
Agreed completely. I was biting at the bit watching the mission get carried out. The significance is incredible. I’ve been a NASA fan all my life like many while stunned at the costs private companies hurl at government funded projects. That in a nutshell is why it’s time. SpaceX has regularly proven these things can be done for less and accomplished in shorter time frames.
Very like planning a scuba dive - The process of depressurizing the capsule - very important - door to door - portal to portal - they opened a window to the stars - and climbed out. Q: What is the next part is a portable tank set or rebreather - Transfer from capsule to service platform? Starship? Space workers - now there is a lot of work to do in space - this planet is perfect. True, except for the infestation of humans. :-) There are NOW evidently more people in space at one time (than ever before.) Credit Shift 4 I was thinking plus four - congrats to Polaris dawn crew - Walker among the stars. Q: What is your call sign?
Polaris Dawn is a very ambitious venture. I must admit that the crew patch for the mission gave the impression that one of the crew would be performing a tethered EVA. What occurred on the flight is more correctly classed as a SEVA (Stand-Up Extravehicular Activity).
fun fact: SEVA was the intention of the first US spacewalk by Ed White after the Soviet beat them by a few weeks, it had to be free floating. But both spacewalks nearly ended in disaster when trying to return inside and were never done like this again as too uncontrollable and dangerous. Todays ISS EVA's are more like rock climbing with a short tether hooked at all times and handholds within easy reach. Or standing upright on the end of a robotic arm as with Shuttle servicing missions.
Small steady steps of progress build up over time to something substantial. Incrementalism! That was how the Industrial Revolution happened during 1700:s.
Congratulations to the Polaris Dawn crew for a successful stand up space walk. They certainly have a lot of courage and are absolutely dedicated and skilled in their tasks. But as a comment noted, this was not a spacewalk as such - they did not actually leave their vehicle. One got the impression that they would do a full scale spacewalk and float around in space. Space X should have made it very clear from the beginning that the spacewalk would be standing only. Still an impressive accomplishment though.
"Space X should have made it very clear from the beginning that the spacewalk would be standing only. " It makes no difference at all. They got to test their suit which was the primary goal here. Lots of iterative testing is how you improve designs fast. It is how spacex develops everything. Adding extra risk to human life for zero gain on suit testing sounds silly to me. The higher orbit isn't going to be just for show either. They want to service satellites and construct in orbit. Jared Isaacman said he would personally fund a mission to service hubble if NASA allows it.
2:50 The suits were thoroughly vacuum tested _on Earth_ long before this mission. It’s not like this is the very first time. The only difference is that this time they happened to be on orbit. 😉
It's an amazing achievement even if they didn't exactly look agile. But they are not exactly agile walking around on Earth with no pressurization either.
I mean, those suits looked slimmer, but less natural than the NASA ones. And did they really have their feet in the capsule when they were doing the EVA?
Needs 6 hour Life support backpack w/ enough padding/protection to stand up to working in regolith regularly. then we'll be cooking.. & 200,000$ & 1 day to make
SpaceX should make some changes to the EVA suit to further improve the mobility while the suit is under pressure. I think that is what it's needed. But overall, the recent EVA tested most of the suit's features.
yeah this is the first of 3 missions for Polaris program as Jared intends to pilot the first crewed Starship (FAA godwilling!) and Crew Dragon is a convenient R&D test bed towards that goal.
Does not matter. Today corporate budgets are many times larger than the budgets of many countries, and the budget of SpaseX is many times larger than the budget of the USSR, which launched a man into outer space 60 years ago
60 years later after multiple videos shown by nasa that back in 60’s during Apollo program we has astronauts jumping and riding on 2x2 seater rovers on moon , yet in 2024 you show me a astronaut coming out out hatch few feet latched in and you all actually call it space walk , hive me a break and all these scientists are telling me we went to moon multiple times abd were riding giant rovers on moon doing experiments. if we were so advanced then , now if i calculate with rate technology has changed, going to moon and coming back would have been normal journey and there would hv been long established scientific team stationed there just like Antarctic . So say the truth.
It's anticlimactic in the sense that they're replicating a feat achieved 60 years ago in a craft that is barely as advanced as the space shuttle. Reality trumps imagination, but it's great to see a private venture that proves how govt bureaucracy and corruption have squashed imagination and delayed progress.
I hope we allow private people to do all government work. We soon eliminate the us debt??? But Democrats make sure that will not happen, they want to hold on the pie!!
Breaking News! It's not a spacewalk if they don't leave the ship, either on a tether or other device. Standing in the hatch is not a spacewalk..... Better luck next time.
Yep guys to call something successfully besides the show there is a deep need of action to be accomplished by the hand of continuity. Otherwise the is no greatness in the matter. Besides the need to the people involved first to accept that they are just Cosmonauts and rocket scientist. So I woild call it just a show of sheap prepotency.
EPIC fail on so many levels. Spend all that money to go to space and oh hey I got a GREAT idea, let's time the "spacewalk" right as we are crossing into the night side of the planet, over the dark pacific ocean with out even any city lights.....and while we are at it, let's also put the POV camera INSIDE the helmet so we get a nice distorted, blurry shot...uhm and finally, don't actually float away from the capsule, just pop your torso out of the hatch for a couple of minutes. Epic, EPIC fail.
Female astronauts are very inconsiderate of their team mates. Why must their hair be all over everybody else. Not cute especially for the others on board.
Just call it what it really is: spacesuit test 101 accomplished and paid for by private wealth during a thrill ride. 🫡 Not Space Walk 🙄. Cuz I thought I was gonna see at least one of the four tethered to but “space walking” (more floating) outside the capsule (as they have already done on the moon eons ago, albeit in a fat suit🤭) Frankly, I had fantasized about space travel as inspired by Virgin Galactic, but have since regained my common sense and would leave this type of risky tasks to those who like living dangerously.
Frankly, finding the grift of Virgin Galactic inspiring while being unimpressed by actual EVA activity doesn't do a great job of selling us on the return of your common sense.
there was some criticism of the misleading mission patch with a freely floating figure, and that may have been the original goal 2 yrs ago but it would of become obvious that would have been far too risky and contributed no useful data to the suit mobilty tests. Jared in his pre-flight press brief and on his website clearly stated it was never going to be free floating but exactly what we saw and why - with no airlock and limited consumables they were always up against the clock and the shorter it was the better (you can hear callouts for O2 clock). He said the tests would look like he was doing a strange dance. Remember this is all towards the goal of the 3rd Polaris crewed flight of Starship (FAA god-willing!) using Dragon as a R&D testbed.
Excellent report. I was 11 years old in 1965 when Ed White performed the first EVA by an American astronaut. That was a very impressive feat for 1965 technology. I am equally as impressed by SpaceX's Polaris Dawn EVA. Congrats to SpaceX for doing what no other commercial entity has done.
They got their psi up to 5.2 while maintaining flexibility. That beats the EMU which was 4.3 psi. The higher the psi, the less time needed for pre-breathing or decompression.
D R A G O N !!!!!
At 14 psi, there’s an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere that doesn’t require pre breathing.
Yeah, that’s a good point to remember. They can’t use full sea level pressure because even these suits would be impossible to move effectively in, but they are using a higher pressure than other suits do! Maybe in the future we’ll have suits that can handle 6, 7, 8 psi or more…
@TallinuTV at higher pressure it will hinder the movement like an ablong balloon, in this case we would probably need to have active joints (think like kind of those exoskeletton suits for lifting heavy weights). This could help a lot with dexterity, and there is some kinds of special motors that are not that bulky but strong (research still needed, but I am not up to date). I can see this happening as much of the tech is actually there today, but the price due to manufacturing is still a bit off. Maybe we could have different tiers of space suits. Maybe like a regular one that works in the most cases, and then the rolls royse one that operates on 14 PSI and requires no pre breathing for critical operations and handles like a silk glove.
@@savagesarethebest7251 The short video spacex made that talked about the suit did seem to say they at least have shoulder and forearm twist joints that are rigid with fabric elbow joints made to bend even when pressurized. The message in that video is that they want a universal suit that handles a lot of situations.
The text of the spacex tweet with the video is "The EVA suit is a scalable design with the intent to create millions to help make life multiplanetary". You can search that text to find the tweet with the video.
Private companies doing space walks! The world will never be the same. So non-spectacular visually yet so game-changing. Congrats to SpaceX and kudos for paving the way. (Also, welcome back to space Space Mike! You have been missed. :) )
Thank you so much! It's great to be back at such an incredible time for spaceflight.
First stage of collecting asteroids out in the belt for mining .
"Private companies doing space walks! "
Don't forget - railroads were (are?) built with private money.
The mobility ratings they gave were out of 5. Kate Tice briefly mentioned this after the space walk (2:51:50 into the SpaceX webcast)
WAIT! I know that voice! Welcome back, Space Mike. Now maybe Ryan can get more regular sleep...or just more.
Thank you for creating this video. A lot of folks didn’t understand the significance of this EVA and had expected more. Y’all did a great job explaining what this EVA was about. 👍🏻👏
Space Mike is back doing his brilliant, informed and heart felt walk thru space broadcast, Thank You Eamon 🇮🇪
SpaceMike is not slacking on SpaceNews with two episodes since his return within a week!
Keep it up, buddy!
Baby steps at first. Let SpaceX sort out the suits and their EVA operations and before you know it something like a Hubble service mission becomes a possibility.
Agreed completely. I was biting at the bit watching the mission get carried out. The significance is incredible. I’ve been a NASA fan all my life like many while stunned at the costs private companies hurl at government funded projects. That in a nutshell is why it’s time. SpaceX has regularly proven these things can be done for less and accomplished in shorter time frames.
@@TheJacklwilliams A lot of the cost & time spent on NASA projects is spent sorting the 'pork barrel' divvy!
To all the naysayers that have never done anything out of the norm, this is HUGE!!! I worked on aerospace programs including Shuttle components.
Great to have Space Mike back. Excellent content, please do more like this.
This format is very good! 15 to 20 minutes would be perfect.
Pleeeeease bring TMRO space news back! They were the best space summary in any media
Wonderful work Space crew👏👏
Very like planning a scuba dive -
The process of depressurizing the capsule - very important - door to door - portal to portal - they opened a window to the stars - and climbed out.
Q: What is the next part is a portable tank set or rebreather - Transfer from capsule to service platform? Starship? Space workers - now there is a lot of work to do in space - this planet is perfect. True, except for the infestation of humans. :-)
There are NOW evidently more people in space at one time (than ever before.) Credit Shift 4
I was thinking plus four - congrats to Polaris dawn crew - Walker among the stars.
Q: What is your call sign?
achievement unlocked
Oh, I remember. So rich with imagery.
Pinky promise.
alt numpad 3
♥
I was very excited about the entire project. Excellent job. ❤
This video brought back good memories thank you
Suit mobility rating out of five. Zero = no mobility. 5 = same mobility as a rugby jersey.
Love this, and especially reading to the children 💖🤗🌹
If this was a space walk every time I stick my head out my sun roof, it's called airwalking from now on 😂
Or "skydiving" 😂
Polaris Dawn is a very ambitious venture.
I must admit that the crew patch for the mission gave the impression that one of the crew would be performing a tethered EVA.
What occurred on the flight is more correctly classed as a SEVA (Stand-Up Extravehicular Activity).
fun fact: SEVA was the intention of the first US spacewalk by Ed White after the Soviet beat them by a few weeks, it had to be free floating. But both spacewalks nearly ended in disaster when trying to return inside and were never done like this again as too uncontrollable and dangerous.
Todays ISS EVA's are more like rock climbing with a short tether hooked at all times and handholds within easy reach. Or standing upright on the end of a robotic arm as with Shuttle servicing missions.
The future of Belters begins. Next the OPA. “Beltalowda!”😂
The expanse
I would imagine that each of them hope for a future mission where they can leave the ship and float around outside.
Thanks for explaining about the suits, tbh I WAS a little disappointed that they only poked their heads out but totally understandable.
Thanks for the information 😊
love the girls' big hair
Hopefully, it will tell NASA that you can use Dragon to service Hubble.
Distance isn't the issue. The issue is the lack of a large enough cargo bay.
Hey folks I wan to ask. Do you guys knew the meaming of the word Astro?.Or it origen?
Hi !! I am seeing this from india
This means private space outperforms the legacy industrial military complex model of cost plus contracts that go over budget without any consequences.
How long can they stay outside with those New suits, so far so good!?
I would like to see how a SX suite will accommodate an astronaut needing to use the potty while on board.
Fantastic event.,) : long time space nerd, I'd love to know that scale too, I'm hoping it's out of 20 but low number is better 😅
Small steady steps of progress build up over time to something substantial.
Incrementalism!
That was how the Industrial Revolution happened during 1700:s.
This is so bizarre. It all looks like a scene from Things To Come when in space
Congratulations to the Polaris Dawn crew for a successful stand up space walk. They certainly have a lot of courage and are absolutely dedicated and skilled in their tasks. But as a comment noted, this was not a spacewalk as such - they did not actually leave their vehicle. One got the impression that they would do a full scale spacewalk and float around in space. Space X should have made it very clear from the beginning that the spacewalk would be standing only.
Still an impressive accomplishment though.
"Space X should have made it very clear from the beginning that the spacewalk would be standing only. " It makes no difference at all. They got to test their suit which was the primary goal here. Lots of iterative testing is how you improve designs fast. It is how spacex develops everything.
Adding extra risk to human life for zero gain on suit testing sounds silly to me. The higher orbit isn't going to be just for show either. They want to service satellites and construct in orbit. Jared Isaacman said he would personally fund a mission to service hubble if NASA allows it.
5 was top value.
Make sure we know its a glode!!!
Thanx
It‘s the first private SpaceWALK, not the first private SpaceFLIGHT! OMG…
Correct. Inspiration4 in 2021 and the three Axiom Space missions that followed were all private.
sooo astronauts don't need tears of training after all.. .
Yeah they still do, do to anything useful.
2:50 The suits were thoroughly vacuum tested _on Earth_ long before this mission. It’s not like this is the very first time. The only difference is that this time they happened to be on orbit. 😉
So you're told.
@outsider5617 mate, they did vacuum tests before hand.
Rocket 🚀 man would have love to see that… RIP 🪦 buddy Mike Hughes 😢
I was a bit disapointed for the astronauts that they didn't use the space zimmer frame on the day side of earth.
It's an amazing achievement even if they didn't exactly look agile. But they are not exactly agile walking around on Earth with no pressurization either.
Glingchi Records
What is air pressure at 20,000 feet
I mean, those suits looked slimmer, but less natural than the NASA ones. And did they really have their feet in the capsule when they were doing the EVA?
I have just one question. Why are the astronauts allow unrestrained hair? At the very least put on a hair net or cut it down.
Why? It's just a hair
*Thank God they made it!*
Where is the space drone?
Just a Note this is not the first Private space flight!!!!
Spacewalk??? I just can see a brave girl 💗
That line sounds so cringe and practiced to me 😂😂 3:45
PEOPLE, THIS WAS NOT A SPACEWALK! HE JUST STOOD UP AND LOOKED AROUND. NEVER LEFT THE CAPSULE! COME ON, USE TRUE FACTS!
Needs 6 hour Life support backpack w/ enough padding/protection to stand up to working in regolith regularly. then we'll be cooking.. & 200,000$ & 1 day to make
First private spacewalk, not first private spaceflight.
SpaceX should make some changes to the EVA suit to further improve the mobility while the suit is under pressure. I think that is what it's needed. But overall, the recent EVA tested most of the suit's features.
Is that Space Mike's voice?
Anybody out there heard anything lately from Dr. Dava Newman about her skin contact bio suit ? 🤔
The rise of the Sleestaks.
Possibly Cooper-Harper scale.
How did they go to
The toilet?
I'm already seeing the
"billionaire joyride, NASA already did this, what a waste of money, there are better things to do" comments about this. Sigh.
yeah this is the first of 3 missions for Polaris program as Jared intends to pilot the first crewed Starship (FAA godwilling!) and Crew Dragon is a convenient R&D test bed towards that goal.
Boeing would never 😂😂😂
Thank you for making this video and explaining how historic this is.
What would Boeing do?
It was more like a space peek than a spacewalk !
Yahoo!!!
What is the restroom privacy like? 🤔
Dragon has a toilet.
Imagine breathing in one of those hairs.😢
oops your in orbit not on it like you said.
Has anyone seen any pics of your face in space yet?
👍
Flat earthers watch this.
Does not matter. Today corporate budgets are many times larger than the budgets of many countries, and the budget of SpaseX is many times larger than the budget of the USSR, which launched a man into outer space 60 years ago
spacewalk*
Ah shoot. I made a mistake right at the beginning 😂 I guess that's how you know this isnt ai.
60 years later after multiple videos shown by nasa that back in 60’s during Apollo program we has astronauts jumping and riding on 2x2 seater rovers on moon , yet in 2024 you show me a astronaut coming out out hatch few feet latched in and you all actually call it space walk , hive me a break and all these scientists are telling me we went to moon multiple times abd were riding giant rovers on moon doing experiments. if we were so advanced then , now if i calculate with rate technology has changed, going to moon and coming back would have been normal journey and there would hv been long established scientific team stationed there just like Antarctic . So say the truth.
The really important thing if you are left wing media is not to mention the swear word SPACEX
More like a space peak than a space walk.
👾👾👍👾👾
It's anticlimactic in the sense that they're replicating a feat achieved 60 years ago in a craft that is barely as advanced as the space shuttle. Reality trumps imagination, but it's great to see a private venture that proves how govt bureaucracy and corruption have squashed imagination and delayed progress.
I hope we allow private people to do all government work. We soon eliminate the us debt??? But Democrats make sure that will not happen, they want to hold on the pie!!
Breaking News!
It's not a spacewalk if they don't leave the ship, either on a tether or other device.
Standing in the hatch is not a spacewalk.....
Better luck next time.
Yep guys to call something successfully besides the show there is a deep need of action to be accomplished by the hand of continuity. Otherwise the is no greatness in the matter. Besides the need to the people involved first to accept that they are just Cosmonauts and rocket scientist. So I woild call it just a show of sheap prepotency.
3 out of 5
Plot twist - it doesn't.
EPIC fail on so many levels. Spend all that money to go to space and oh hey I got a GREAT idea, let's time the "spacewalk" right as we are crossing into the night side of the planet, over the dark pacific ocean with out even any city lights.....and while we are at it, let's also put the POV camera INSIDE the helmet so we get a nice distorted, blurry shot...uhm and finally, don't actually float away from the capsule, just pop your torso out of the hatch for a couple of minutes. Epic, EPIC fail.
Not really a "space walk" is it? More of a space "stick your head out the window."
Why lie?
Female astronauts are very inconsiderate of their team mates. Why must their hair be all over everybody else. Not cute especially for the others on board.
too much goop
BS!
Totally fake
What a load of crap!
Just call it what it really is: spacesuit test 101 accomplished and paid for by private wealth during a thrill ride. 🫡 Not Space Walk 🙄. Cuz I thought I was gonna see at least one of the four tethered to but “space walking” (more floating) outside the capsule (as they have already done on the moon eons ago, albeit in a fat suit🤭) Frankly, I had fantasized about space travel as inspired by Virgin Galactic, but have since regained my common sense and would leave this type of risky tasks to those who like living dangerously.
Frankly, finding the grift of Virgin Galactic inspiring while being unimpressed by actual EVA activity doesn't do a great job of selling us on the return of your common sense.
there was some criticism of the misleading mission patch with a freely floating figure, and that may have been the original goal 2 yrs ago but it would of become obvious that would have been far too risky and contributed no useful data to the suit mobilty tests.
Jared in his pre-flight press brief and on his website clearly stated it was never going to be free floating but exactly what we saw and why - with no airlock and limited consumables they were always up against the clock and the shorter it was the better (you can hear callouts for O2 clock). He said the tests would look like he was doing a strange dance. Remember this is all towards the goal of the 3rd Polaris crewed flight of Starship (FAA god-willing!) using Dragon as a R&D testbed.
Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin aren't even on the first step with a few minutes at 110 km.