First spacewalk funded by private sponsors ends with success
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First spacewalk funded by private sponsors ends with success
An American billionaire has made history as the first person to complete a private spacewalk, hundreds of kilometres above Earth—or, as he put it, above the "perfect world." Jared Isaacman, who chartered the Polaris Dawn mission, and senior engineer Sarah Gillis exited the space capsule on Thursday to test the new SpaceX suit. Shadia Edwards-Dashti reports.
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