Russia plans to allow customers to conduct a spacewalk in 2023
Sri Lanka, June 26 -- Russia's space corporation said that it will take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023. This will be under the terms of a new contract with a US partner.
The announcement comes days after NASA signed a deal with a space tourism company to promote private missions to the station after a special training program in the US.
It also follows the first successful mission by SpaceX last month to bring astronauts to the station on a reusable Crew Dragon spacecraft, ending nearly a decade of Russia holding a monopoly on shuttling humans to orbit according to foreign media reports.
Russia will allow a tourist to conduct a spacewalk for the first ever time.
The customer is expected to walk out into the void of space fr...
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