A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens splashed down off the coast of Florida on Sunday morning, concluding the Polaris Dawn's five-day mission. The mission featured the world’s first all-civilian spacewalk. The Polaris Dawn flight was the fifth private mission for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and reached the highest human orbital flight since the Apollo missions. The flight aimed to test new technologies and provide data for future missions to the moon and Mars.
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00:02A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens splashed down off the coast of Florida on
00:07Sunday morning, concluding the Polaris Dawn's five-day mission.
00:11The mission featured the world's first all-civilian spacewalk.
00:14The Polaris Dawn flight was the fifth private mission for SpaceX's Crew Dragon and reached
00:19the highest human-orbital flight since the Apollo missions.
00:22The flight aimed to test new technologies and provide data for future missions to the
00:26Moon and Mars.
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00:30NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology