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Billionaire returns to orbit for landmark spacewalk with SpaceX

By Ross O'Keefe
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SpaceX is orchestrating another piece of history in outer space.

Billionaire tech magnate Jared Isaacman, along with a pair of SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbirds pilot, blasted off in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday in the hopes that he can be the first private citizen to go on a spacewalk.

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