Billionaire Blasts Off on SpaceX’s Historic Polaris Dawn Private Spacewalk Mission

Elon Musk’s SpaceX blasted off in Florida on Tuesday on a mission scheduled to culminate in the first private spacewalk in history.

Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman plans to venture way beyond the International Space Station and further into space than anyone since the Apollo moon missions.

The American billionaire founder of the Shift4 electronic payment firm is one of four astronauts on the privately funded Polaris Dawn mission. The other civilians include two SpaceX employees and a retired military fighter pilot.

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