It's been done and so far with no problems.

Footage of the daring stunt showed a billionaire popping out of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule on a tether as he came face-to-face with the dark vacuum of space.

Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman became the first-ever civilian to start a space walk on Thursday — after already travelling the farthest from Earth a human being has gone since the Apollo moon missions.

Footage of the daring stunt showed Isaacman, 41, popping out of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule on a tether as he came face-to-face with the dark vacuum of space just before 7am (EDT).

“Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world,” Isaacman said soon after emerging from the spacecraft with the planet glittering below him.

After about 15 minutes outside, Isaacman was replaced by SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis to go through the same motions. She was slated to be following by two other crew members: engineer Anna Menon and former Air Force Thunderbirds pilot, Scott “Kidd” Poteet..........

Polaris Dawn mission accomplished without a hitch.

SpaceX capsule splashes down off Florida coast.

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth after five days in orbit, following a historic mission featuring the world's first commercial spacewalk.

The Dragon capsule made splashdown off the coast of Florida shortly after 03:37EDT (07:37GMT), in an event stream lived by SpaceX.

"Splashdown of Dragon confirmed! Welcome back to Earth," SpaceX said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

The US space agency Nasa said the mission represented "a giant leap forward" for the commercial space industry.....

Cheers.

Another milestone for SpaceX has been made.

Space X successfully catches Falcon Superheavy rocket booster in ‘Mechagodzilla claws’.

SpaceX made an incredible advancement in capability when it launched its Starship rocket — and then managed to catch the Super Heavy booster in the “Mechagodzilla” claws on the launch pad on Sunday.

SpaceX successfully flew the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket back to the launch pad after a test flight, a technical tour de force that furthers the company’s quest for rapid reusability.

The “super heavy booster” had blasted off attached to the uncrewed Starship rocket minutes earlier, then made a picture-perfect controlled return to the same pad in Texas, where a pair of huge mechanical “chopsticks” reached out from the launch tower to bring the slowly descending booster to a halt, according to a livestream from Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.

The booster was caught by the “Mechazilla arms” at SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas after the Starship rocket separated from the booster and continued into space.

Not long afterwards, the upper stage of Starship splashed down, as planned, in the Indian Ocean, a development saluted by Musk on X.......

Cheers.

The most incredible thing concerning rockets I've ever seen. You can't maneuver a rocket stage weighing many hundreds of tons like that. You just can't do that. Mind blowing...

Indeed fantastic!


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That, and NSF, completely shaped my day!


What a wonderful time to be alive!

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Well that 1 didn't take off.

SpaceX Failed Launch: Here's What Went Wrong.

A launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed on Sunday due to a helium leak.

The SpaceX Starlink 6-77 mission, meant to deliver 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, was scheduled to launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on November 3 at 4:57 p.m. ET.

However, the Falcon 9 launch was stopped just over two minutes before launch due to a helium leak on the rocket's first stage.

During a live broadcast on X (formerly Twitter) of the planned launch, a SpaceX team member could be heard saying, "Hold, hold, hold. Standing down for helium, stage one."

A helium leak in a Falcon 9 launch can be particularly problematic due to the rocket's reliance on inert gas to pressurize its fuel systems.

Falcon 9 uses supercooled liquid oxygen (LOX) and RP-1 (a refined kerosene) as propellants. To feed these liquids into the engines, Falcon 9 uses helium to pressurize both the LOX and RP-1 tanks, particularly as fuel is used during ascent........

It's almost time to do it again.

SpaceX Starship Sixth Test Flight: What to Expect.

SpaceX is finalizing preparations for the sixth test flight of its Starship rocket, with the launch scheduled for Monday, November 18.

The upper stage of the rocket is now positioned on the launch pad at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, the company said on X (formerly Twitter).

Standing at 397 feet tall, Starship is the world's largest and most powerful rocket, comprising two main sections: the upper "Starship" stage and the lower "Super Heavy" booster.

This groundbreaking rocket system is being developed with the ambitious goal of enabling lunar and interplanetary missions, including NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade.

However, before Starship can reach this milestone, it must first clear numerous technical challenges—which is what the sixth test flight is all about......

Cheers.