A group of four astronauts have become the first crew to conduct a commercial spacewalk.
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00:00An historic moment for space exploration as billionaire Jared Isaacman stepped out from
00:06the SpaceX capsule in the world's first commercial spacewalk.
00:11Isaacman was joined in the mission by three other astronauts — retired U.S. Air Force
00:17Lieutenant Colonel Scott Petit and SpaceX engineers Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon.
00:23They were testing new spacesuits.
00:26They are the world's first citizen astronauts to complete the risky mission.
00:31Before, only highly trained government astronauts have done spacewalks.
00:36This mission also went farther into space than any human since NASA's Apollo program
00:42over 50 years ago.