Commercial Spaceflight

“From here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world," said the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk. The BBC reports that a billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to complete a spacewalk during a commercial mission. Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out of the SpaceX spacecraft around 15 minutes apart.     Before Thursday, only astronauts from government-funded space agencies had conducted spacewalks. Spacewalks […]