The "extravehicular activity" (EVA) of the amateur spacewalkers began at 12.12 p.m. with the injection of oxygen into the spacesuits, SpaceX commentators explained during a live broadcast of the mission. A short time later, the hatch opened and mission leader Jared Isaacman stuck his head outside. After ten minutes, the billionaire climbed back inside. SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis then followed him into space (see video below). The external deployment phase was the riskiest period of the entire mission, as former astronaut Ulrich Walter explained.

In contrast to missions to the ISS space station, the amateur space travelers Isaacman and Gillis did not float freely in space during their 20-minute excursion, but were attached to a type of ladder via foot straps for the entire time.

1400 kilometers above the earth
Billionaire entrepreneur Isaacman led the mission, which lasted up to five days, in coordination with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who remained on the ground. Isaacman and SpaceX employee Gillis were joined by former jet pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet and SpaceX employee Anna Menon on board the Crew Dragon, which was launched into space on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceport on the west coast of Florida. On Wednesday, the Crew Dragon reached the highest point of the mission at 1400 kilometers above the Earth. The walk itself took place 700 kilometers from Earth.

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