This was the first untethered spacewalk in history. For 6 hours and 17 minutes, McCandless became a speck in the vastness of space; flying around with no cables to hold him from going loose.

A longer, untethered spacewalk was not possible because only ... normally be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it is just the first of three trips Isaacman purchased from Elon Musk in 2022.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s two stuck astronauts take their first spacewalk together since arriving at the space station last year.