SpaceX’s attempt at the first ever private spacewalk next week will be a test of trailblazing equipment. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees are poised to launch on Tuesday aboard a modified Crew Dragon craft, before embarking on 20-minute spacewalk 434 miles into space two days later. SpaceX’s five-day mission – dubbed Polaris Dawn – will swing in an oval-shaped orbit, passing as close to Earth as 118 miles and as far as 870 miles, the farthest any humans will have ventured since the end of the United States’ Apollo moon program in 1972. How risk can the mission be ?

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