, Fla. — This Thursday, the Polaris Dawn crew completed the first private spacewalk.
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Commander Jared Isaacman and Mission Specialist Sarah Gillis took turns exiting the Dragon Resilience hatch.
Isaacman was heard saying, “Back home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here earth looks like a perfect world.” Prior to the spacewalk,
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Issacman and Gillis along with Mission Specialist Anna Menon and Mission Pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet flew farther than anyone since the Apollo missions.
The crew still has a list of experiments to complete over the next couple of days before splashing down off the coast of Florida.
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