September 10, 2024 3:12 pm . Facebook 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. In pursuit of Isaacman’s walk, the rocket will go further than any other since the Apollo missions, which ended in 1972. The rocket will fly to 870 miles above the Earth, far beyond the International Space Station, and the crew will spend 10 hours at that height. On Thursday, Isaacman will attempt the dangerous spacewalk. All four passengers will wear SpaceX’s spacewalking suits, and the cabin of the Dragon capsule will be depressurized, exposing them to the vacuum of space. Isaacman and SpaceX’s Sarah Gillis will take turns venturing outside of the capsule, never truly detaching themselves from the spacecraft with a 12-foot tether and their grip securing them. Pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet and SpaceX’s Anna Menon will monitor the spacewalk. While it’s expected to go well, space can be unpredictable. The seemingly most dangerous part of the trip is how the new spacesuits, which Isaacman helped develop and test, will hold up to the vacuum of space. If the suits depressurized for any reason, that can result in death within seconds. There have never been any fatalities in space from spacewalking, but there have been close calls. An astronaut on a space walk in 2013 experienced a coolant leak, forcing an early end to the venture.