Polaris Dawn astronauts perform 1st private spacewalk | Space Quiz! The Polaris Dawn spacewalk broke the record for number of astronauts on EVA. Which mission held the previous record? | New record! 19 people are orbiting Earth right now.
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Polaris Dawn just made history again. SpaceX's private crew of four astronauts performed the world's first commercial spacewalk while soaring high above Earth on Thursday (Sept. 12) during the third day of a five-day trip to Earth orbit. "SpaceX, back at home we have a lot of work to do, but from here it looks like a perfect world," Polaris Dawn commander Jared Isaacman, the American billionaire who financed the mission, said as he looked down on Earth while standing mostly outside the Dragon hatch.
Earth orbit is busier right now than it's ever been. Three people launched toward the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday (Sept. 11) aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, pushing the total number of people in Earth orbit to a new high-water mark. "With the trio now in orbit, there is a record of 19 people currently in orbit," NASA commentator Anna Schneider said during the agency's webcast of the Soyuz liftoff. The old record was 17, set last year.
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA's Don Pettit and Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos docked with the ISS yesterday at 3:32 p.m. EDT (1932 GMT), as the two spacecraft flew 260 miles (418 kilometers) over central Ukraine. That was just three hours, and two orbits of Earth, after their launch atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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The SpaceX EVA suit, designed for extravehicular activities (EVAs, or spacewalks), is based on the familiar black-and-white intravehicular activity (IVA) spacesuit, but with enhancements and improvements in key areas to make it lightweight and unobtrusive, all while protecting astronauts in the unforgiving environment of outer space. "It's kind of like a suit of armor made of fabric," SpaceX principal spacesuit engineer Erik Kraus says
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