Nicole Stott Says Commercial Spacewalk is Safe, Been Prepping for Years

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Isaacman was tethered to the SpaceX craft during his spacewalk, and Nicole says the whole thing was safe. She says there is no more danger to a civilian than for a NASA astronaut, as private expeditions include the same training as NASA missions.

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00:00Yeah, you know, I mean, I wasn't intimately involved in any way with the training that

00:05these, you know, this group of four, you know, humans have done for the past, for the last

00:10several years, actually, building up to this day of, you know, popping that hatch open

00:15and, and moving out.

00:18You mentioned Ed White.

00:19It's like, they're not starting from scratch, right?

00:22They've got this history and experience from what NASA has done, what our, you know, our,

00:28you know, our international partners have done with spacewalking to, to build on.

00:33And they have, you know, when they, when they went out of the hatch today, they took all

00:37of that with them.

00:38I, I'm, I'm feel very confident that they did that with them.

00:42You know, SpaceX is a company that NASA has partnered with to take our crew members to

00:48and from the International Space Station on that same Dragon capsule.

00:53And the, I don't know, just the integrity and the diligence that's gone into building

00:59up that company in partnership with NASA and the experience there, I think lends itself

01:04to what they did today as well.

01:06Knowing those four people that were in that capsule today, none of them were going to,

01:10were going to pursue this if they themselves didn't feel like there was the safety in place,

01:15the diligence in place to make that happen.

01:18And they tested out, you know, this new suit they did, you know, you didn't see him crawling

01:22around, you know, you know, just going out to the end of that tether kind of willy nilly.

01:27This was a very deliberate test flight and you saw it every step of the way.

01:32If you listen to it, you heard it every step of the way.

01:35And that made me happy.

01:36You know, that gave me goosebumps too, to see how that progressed today.

01:40And I'm really looking forward to how this builds out in parallel with, and in concert

01:45with what NASA and the other agencies are doing in spaceflight as well.

01:52NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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