The billionaire Jared Isaacman and his fellow crew members completed the first privately funded spacewalk as a livestream of the mission showed Isaacman manually opening the hatch to enter space. Upon seeing Earth, he said: ‘Back at home we all have a lot of work to do but from here, the Earth sure looks like a perfect world.’
SpaceX Polaris Dawn live: all-civilian crew completes first privately funded spacewalk
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