Billionaire Jared Isaacman and fellow passenger to take part in first privately-funded spacewalk
Many reasons but here are three big ones:
This would be a major milestone for efforts by private companies (such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Boeing and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin) to take on the role that has so far been the sole domain of government agencies. Only well-funded state-run agencies, such as Nasa and Russia’s Roscosmos, have so far managed to carry out spacewalks.
The crew are also testing slimmed-down spacesuits designed by SpaceX (which look very sci-fi).
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