‘Mission complete’: billionaire returns to Earth after spacewalk
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#6QR5W)
Jared Isaacman and crew splash down in SpaceX capsule in the Gulf of Mexico after first ever private spacewalk
The civilian crew on SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission returned to Earth on Sunday after a historic five days in orbit that took them higher than anyone since Nasa's moon trips more than half a century ago.
The Dragon capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida's Dry Tortugas shortly after 3.37am local time (8.37am BST), carrying onboard the billionaire tech entrepreneur and mission funder Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former air force Thunderbird pilot.
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