Key moments from professional pilot’s first spacewalk

Billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman became the first non-professional astronaut to walk in space during the Polaris Dawn mission.

“Back home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth really looks like a perfect world,” he said as he stepped into space for the first time.

Carrying four citizens, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched into space on Tuesday and will stay in orbit for five days.

Mr Isaacman funded the mission, which is the second private crewed mission from SpaceX, the space travel company founded by Elon Musk.

Their spacecraft, called Resilience, will enter a final orbit that will take them as high as 870 miles (1,400km) above the planet. No human has gone that far since NASA’s Apollo program ended in the 1970s.