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A mother of two plans to livestream herself reading a children’s book from a rocket ship during a flight that could feature the first civilian spacewalks, according to a report Saturday. Anna Menon, a lead space operations engineer at billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, is scheduled to be among four civilian astronauts who will blast off on the Polaris Dawn mission as early as this summer. The crew will spend up to five days conducting research, trying to reach the highest Earth orbit ever known and attempting the first civilian spacewalks in new, specially designed spacesuits. But Menon, …

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