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Tech billionaire returns to Earth after 1st private spacewalk – National

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Tech billionaire returns to Earth after 1st private spacewalk – National

A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers. SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air … Read more

Tech billionaire emerges from capsule in 1st civilian spacewalk in history – National

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Tech billionaire emerges from capsule in 1st civilian spacewalk in history – National

A silhouetted figure stands in stark contrast against the bright blue of planet Earth, his torso emerging from a space capsule hundreds of kilometres above the atmosphere. The man is Jared Isaacman, a tech billionaire who became the first civilian in history to perform a commercial spacewalk. Before today, the only people who could attempt … Read more