In the early hours of this Sunday (15), the crew of the Polaris Dawn from the SpaceX returned to Earth after five days in orbit. The Crew Dragon capsule, carrying four astronauts, landed on the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, United States.
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission made history as the first group of non-government astronauts to perform a spacewalk.
The Crew Dragon capsule took off on Wednesday morning (11) with crew members Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 Payments and financier of Polaris Dawn; his close friend and former US Air Force pilot, Scott “Kidd” Poteet; and SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis.
The quartet also achieved an orbit around Earth that extended to 1,400 km – the highest orbit around Earth ever traveled by humans, surpassing the 1966 record set by NASA’s Gemini 11 mission, which reached 1,373 km.

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