04:19Mandatory credit: SpaceX
SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' crew members returned to Earth on Sunday, carried by 'Dragon' capsule after a completing historic first-ever commercial walk in space.
Footage shows the capsule entering the planet's atmosphere to then be met by recovery vessels offshore in Florida. The astronauts can bee seen waving, dancing and hugging with exited recovery crew after leaving the capsule. A splashdown made by capsule, marking the completion of the five-day mission, was also spotted.
Despite some delay due to airlock issues, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis successfully finished the primary objective of the mission, spending around 10 minutes out in the vacuum of space.
The crew also reportedly conducted 40 experiments aimed at understanding of the space environment impacts the human body and equipment tests.
On Tuesday, the 'Polaris Dawn' spacecraft began its flight into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The crew received more than two years of intense training ahead of the mission, which involved skydiving as well as hundreds of hours in simulators, and even tasks performed on top of a volcano in Ecuador.
The four-member team is led by American billionaire Isaacman, who has a long-standing partnership with SpaceX and was appointed mission commander. The team includes SpaceX Lead Space Operations Engineer Gillis, her engineer colleague Anna Menon and former US Air Force pilot Scott 'Kidd' Poteet.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to X (formerly Twitter) to discuss the mission. "The @PolarisProgram astronaut mission is headed for an altitude three times higher than the Space Station, the furthest that humans have been from Earth in over half a century!" he wrote.
The spacewalk is the first to have been commercially funded, with previous missions conducted by government-funded astronauts.
Return of the Dragon! SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' crew arrives to Earth
SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' crew members returned to Earth on Sunday, carried by 'Dragon' capsule after a completing historic first-ever commercial walk in space.
Footage shows the capsule entering the planet's atmosphere to then be met by recovery vessels offshore in Florida. The astronauts can bee seen waving, dancing and hugging with exited recovery crew after leaving the capsule. A splashdown made by capsule, marking the completion of the five-day mission, was also spotted.
Despite some delay due to airlock issues, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis successfully finished the primary objective of the mission, spending around 10 minutes out in the vacuum of space.
The crew also reportedly conducted 40 experiments aimed at understanding of the space environment impacts the human body and equipment tests.
On Tuesday, the 'Polaris Dawn' spacecraft began its flight into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The crew received more than two years of intense training ahead of the mission, which involved skydiving as well as hundreds of hours in simulators, and even tasks performed on top of a volcano in Ecuador.
The four-member team is led by American billionaire Isaacman, who has a long-standing partnership with SpaceX and was appointed mission commander. The team includes SpaceX Lead Space Operations Engineer Gillis, her engineer colleague Anna Menon and former US Air Force pilot Scott 'Kidd' Poteet.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to X (formerly Twitter) to discuss the mission. "The @PolarisProgram astronaut mission is headed for an altitude three times higher than the Space Station, the furthest that humans have been from Earth in over half a century!" he wrote.
The spacewalk is the first to have been commercially funded, with previous missions conducted by government-funded astronauts.
Mandatory credit: SpaceX
SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' crew members returned to Earth on Sunday, carried by 'Dragon' capsule after a completing historic first-ever commercial walk in space.
Footage shows the capsule entering the planet's atmosphere to then be met by recovery vessels offshore in Florida. The astronauts can bee seen waving, dancing and hugging with exited recovery crew after leaving the capsule. A splashdown made by capsule, marking the completion of the five-day mission, was also spotted.
Despite some delay due to airlock issues, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis successfully finished the primary objective of the mission, spending around 10 minutes out in the vacuum of space.
The crew also reportedly conducted 40 experiments aimed at understanding of the space environment impacts the human body and equipment tests.
On Tuesday, the 'Polaris Dawn' spacecraft began its flight into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
The crew received more than two years of intense training ahead of the mission, which involved skydiving as well as hundreds of hours in simulators, and even tasks performed on top of a volcano in Ecuador.
The four-member team is led by American billionaire Isaacman, who has a long-standing partnership with SpaceX and was appointed mission commander. The team includes SpaceX Lead Space Operations Engineer Gillis, her engineer colleague Anna Menon and former US Air Force pilot Scott 'Kidd' Poteet.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to X (formerly Twitter) to discuss the mission. "The @PolarisProgram astronaut mission is headed for an altitude three times higher than the Space Station, the furthest that humans have been from Earth in over half a century!" he wrote.
The spacewalk is the first to have been commercially funded, with previous missions conducted by government-funded astronauts.