For its sixth privately funded spaceflight, SpaceX sent an international crew of four civilians into polar orbit (counterclockwise from left): Chun Wang, Eric Philips, Jannicke Mikkelsen and Rabea Rogge.
Credit: Fram2/SpaceX
A quartet of civilian polar explorers returned from a 3.5-day spaceflight on SpaceX’s first crewed Dragon splashdown in the Pacific Ocean and a test to see if the first-time flyers could egress the capsule without assistance. The Dragon splashed down on April 4 at 9:19 a.m. PDT off the coast of...
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