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The Guardian

‘Mission complete’: billionaire returns to Earth after spacewalk



Jared Isaacman splashes down in SpaceX capsule in the Gulf of Mexico after first ever private spacewalkA billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has travelled since Nasa’s moonwalkers.SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying the tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former air force Thunderbird pilot. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/15/mission-complete-billionaire-returns-to-earth-after-spacewalk-jared-isaacman

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Publish date : 2024-09-15 08:47:17

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