The mission was Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s latest and riskiest bid to push the boundaries of commercial spaceflight.
Two astronauts from a SpaceX capsule have carried out the world’s first private spacewalk, hundreds of kilometres from Earth.
They were tethered to the Crew Dragon spacecraft in the vacuum of space while two others watched from inside. Before the spacewalk began, the capsule was completely depressurised, with the whole crew relying on their slim, SpaceX-developed spacesuits for oxygen, provided via an umbilical connection to Crew Dragon.
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