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Billionaire Makes History With the First Private Spacewalk on SpaceX Mission

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The tech entrepreneur was joined in the breathtaking feat by one of Elon Musk’s employees.

Jared Isaacman completed the first private spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn mission from Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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After the SpaceX capsule depressurized, its billionaire mission commander opened the hatch and climbed out into the vacuum of space hundreds of miles above the Earth early Thursday—the first private spacewalk in human history.

Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman became the first non-professional astronaut to venture outside a spacecraft while in orbit....

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