(UPDATE) WASHINGTON — The SpaceX Polaris Dawn, which began its five-day mission on September 10, splashed down off the coast of Florida early Sunday.
WASHINGTON — The SpaceX Polaris Dawn, which began its five-day mission on September 10, splashed down off the coast of Florida early Sunday.The Dragon spacecraft landed in the ocean at 3:37 a.m., a webcast of the splashdown showed, with a recovery team deploying in the pre-dawn darkness to retrieve the capsule and crew.
Mission pilot Scott Poteet and SpaceX engineer Anna Menon remained strapped in throughout as they monitored vital support systems.It marked a 'giant leap forward' for the commercial space industry, said NASA chief Bill Nelson, as well as another triumphant achievement for SpaceX.Though the company was only founded in 2002, it has outpaced its legacy competitors thanks in large part to founder Elon Musk's vast fortune and zeal to begin the colonization of Mars.
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