<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Jared Isaacman is set to lead the first commercial space walk with SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission.Chandan Khanna/Getty</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Jared Isaacman is set to lead the first private spacewalk with the upcoming SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission.</li><li>The mission will test <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-elon-musk">SpaceX's</a> new spacesuits with two crew members performing a spacewalk.</li></ul><p>SpaceX is readying a mission to conduct <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-launch-risky-polaris-dawn-mission-first-commercial-spacewalk-radiation-2024-8">the world's first private </a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-launch-risky-polaris-dawn-mission-first-commercial-spacewalk-radiation-2024-8">spacewalk</a> — and it's being led by billionaire Jared Isaacman.</p><p>Isaacman and another crew member will test SpaceX's new extravehicular spacesuits in the first-ever commercial<strong> </strong>spacewalk. The new suits are designed for increased mobility and a mask display that shows information like internal pressure levels and temperature.</p><p>It's not Isaacman's first time in space.</p><p>Three years ago, he helped finance and led a <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-launch">SpaceX trip</a> on the company's first private mission with a group of three other civilians.</p><p>But his latest mission, called Polaris Dawn, is significant, both because of the spacewalk and because the crew plans to travel further than any other mission since the Apollo era. It's also an especially risky mission, as the crew will fly through a radiation belt.</p><p>The group had plans to depart from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier this week, although the event was <a target="_blank" class href="https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1828616363071676482">delayed</a> due to weather conditions.</p><p>The new launch date now remains unknown, as the reusable booster of one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets failed while landing on a drone ship at sea on Wednesday. The FAA is now investigating the incident, and SpaceX may need to seek approval for other launches.</p><p>Meanwhile, Isaacman <a target="_blank" class href="https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1829230986128962029">said on social media</a> Thursday that the crew is "ready to launch within approximately 30 hours of receiving a favorable forecast."</p><p>The mission is set to last about five days and three other non-astronaut crew members will join the mission, including former US Air Force pilot Scott Poteet and <a target="_blank" rel class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/working-for-elon-musk-spacex-workplace-culture-twitter-jim-cantrell-2022-11"><u>SpaceX engineers</u></a> Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon.</p>