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Billionaire blasts off on way to first commercial spacewalk
The Guardian
|September 11, 2024
Four astronauts blasted out of the atmosphere yesterday as part of a privately funded five-day mission that aims to carry out the first commercial spacewalk.
Jared Isaacman, the American billionaire founder of the electronic payment company Shift4, is bankrolling the Polaris Dawn mission and acting as commander of the crew.
It is the second trip Isaacman has charted. In 2021, he flew on the Inspiration4 mission, the first orbital spaceflight by an all-civilian crew, which included a cancer survivor as well as a data engineer who won his seat in a raffle draw.
Isaacman is joined this time by a retired military fighter pilot and two employees of SpaceX, the Elon Musk-owned company that is operating the mission.
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