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The Scariest Spacewalk in 50 Years
Spaceflight is entering its cowboy era.
In 2022, he commissioned SpaceX for three more, essentially starting his own private spaceflight program guided by a lifelong interest in space exploration and a penchant for high-flying firsts: As a young pilot, Isaacman broke a speed record for flying around the world. Later, on Earth, White described the final 30-second battle with the door as “probably the most dramatic moment of my life.” Both astronauts “were near exhausted,” Carroll “Pete” Woodling, the NASA chief for crew safety and procedures at the time, recalled in an interview in 2000. Isaacman has offered to use the mission after Polaris Dawn to raise the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope, which sinks a little closer to Earth each year, in order to extend its life span—an operation that would involve spacewalking.
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