The crew of the Polaris Dawn private space mission, having made the first ever spacewalk by non-professional astronauts, returned to earth. The Dragon capsule with a crew of four landed in the sea off the coast of the American state of Florida on Sunday, September 15.
The first commercial Polaris Dawn research mission launched on September 10. The Crew Dragon ship was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The crew included billionaire Jared Isaacman, who founded the Polaris mission with SpaceX, retired Lieutenant Colonel Scott Poteet of the US Air Force, as well as two SpaceX employees - Anna Menon, a leading engineer for space operations, and Sarah Gillis, an engineer in charge of astronaut training, reports dw.com.
