SpaceX launched Isaacman, along with three others, into space to conduct the first-ever spacewalk by an all-civilian crew. Find out more about the billionaire here.

Jared Isaacman, a tech billionaire and space enthusiast, this morning (Sept. 12) became the first private citizen to walk in space, successfully carrying out one of the most dangerous spaceflight tasks that has been reserved only for professional astronauts.

A tech billionaire performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth on Thursday, a high-risk endeavor reserved for professional astronauts — until now. New Jersey-born entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the company’s new spacesuits on his chartered flight.

SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” Jared Isaacman was already a funder and participant in the first fully commercial spaceflight,

SpaceX successfully launched a crew of four—including a billionaire—as part of a private space mission known as Polaris Dawn early Tuesday, as the company looks to make history with the first-ever private spacewalk and the furthest crewed space flight since NASA’s Apollo moon missions more than 50 years ago.

In a big move for private space travel, two astronauts did the first-ever spacewalk paid for by a business on the Polaris Dawn trip. They wore new slimmer SpaceX spacesuits. Billionaire Jared Isaacman put money into this project, hoping to explore new limits in space without needing the government.

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