CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A billionaire will have to wait a little longer to perform first private spacewalk after SpaceX was delayed Thursday’s space walk with a few hours.
Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his crew began preparing for the endeavor shortly after blasting into orbit on Tuesday for a five-day flight. SpaceX announced the launch an hour before the scheduled start of the spacewalk.
No explanation was immediately given, but the company said via X “all systems look good.”
Isaacman and a SpaceX engineer will take turns exiting their capsule hundreds of miles above Earth and staying close to the hatch. Two other crew members will remain strapped to their seats.
Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX for the first commercial spacewalk to test new spacesuits.
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