A billionaire stepped out for the first private spacewalk Thursday, teaming up with SpaceX on the daring endeavour hundreds of miles above Earth.
Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis both completed manoeuvres in space, live streamed on the company's website.
"Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world," said Isaacman.The commercial spacewalk was the main focus of the five-day flight financed by Mr Isaacman and Elon Musk's company, and the culmination of years of development geared toward settling Mars and other planets.
Each had 3.6-meter tethers but no intention of unfurling them or dangling at the end unlike what happens at the International Space Station, where astronauts routinely float out to do repairs at a much lower orbit.
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