Article 6QRA5 Billionaire returns to Earth after first privately funded spacewalk – video

Billionaire returns to Earth after first privately funded spacewalk – video

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The billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted the team higher than anyone has travelled since Nasa's moonwalkers. The crew, whose SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, pulled off the first private spacewalk while orbiting nearly 460 miles (740km) above Earth, higher than the International Space Station and Hubble space telescope

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