This first ever private spacewalk will be bringing some serious style to outer space. SpaceX's privately-funded crewed mission, Polaris Dawn, is moving toward a launch sometime this summer.

Polaris Dawn is targeting a launch at 3:38 ... not only will this be the first private EVA, but it's being done a bit differently. Unlike the Space Shuttle, for example, or the International ...

Their week-long mission, called Polaris Dawn, is fully private with no NASA involvement — but it's no billionaire joyride. This spacewalk was a critical test of the technical abilities that ...

With Polaris Dawn crewmates Anna Menon and Scott ... and mobility of their pressurized extra-vehicular activity, or EVA, suits, moving their arms, hands and legs through a series of positions ...

The most recent stand-up EVA before Polaris Dawn was in 2008 during the first spacewalk by a Chinese taikonaut. Liu Boming spent most of the 22-minute EVA inside the orbital module of the Shenzhou ...

Polaris Dawn crewmembers Anna Menon (from left), Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Jared Isaacman, and Sarah Gillis don the SpaceX EVA spacesuits they will wear on their historic spacewalk. [Courtesy ...

Spacewalk Recap: Scroll down to read updates from the September 12 SpaceX Polaris Dawn spacewalk. On Wednesday, the crew of Polaris Dawn had traveled further than any human in 52 years ...

The Polaris Dawn mission also marks the farthest ... void only by SpaceX’s new Extravehicular Activity — or EVA — suits. The spacesuits were designed and developed in 2 ½ years, which ...

During this endeavor, the astronauts will be protected solely by brand-new Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) suits, which SpaceXdesigned and developed in just two and a half years. With Polaris Dawn ...

Credit: Polaris Program/John Kraus (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Gillis and Isaacman’s EVA at a planned 435 miles (700 km) in altitude will seize several world records. Almost twice as h igh as the ...