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  • 9/12/2024
A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform one of the riskiest manoeuvres in space - a spacewalk.

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00:00A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform
00:04one of the riskiest manoeuvres in space, a spacewalk.
00:08Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out of the SpaceX spacecraft around 15 minutes apart,
00:14starting at 11.52 BST, wearing specially designed suits.
00:19Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here Earth sure looks like a perfect world,
00:24Mr Isaacman said as he exited. It was commercially funded by Mr Isaacman.
00:30Before, only astronauts with government-funded space agencies had done a spacewalk.
00:36Images broadcast live showed the two crew emerge from the White Dragon capsule to float 435 miles
00:43700 kilometers above the blue Earth below. Mr Isaacman emerged first, wiggling his limbs,
00:50hands and feet to test his suit. He returned back inside the hatch,
00:54and Ms Gillis, who works for SpaceX, then climbed out.
00:59Both crew narrated their spacewalk, describing how their

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