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View all search resultsSpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission hit a peak altitude of 1,400 kilometers, more than three times higher than the International Space Station, and the furthest humans had ever traveled from Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon, and performed first ever spacewalk by non-government astronauts.
The return of Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams had already been delayed for weeks by thruster malfunctions of the Boeing spacecraft, and NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced they will return to Earth in February, while Starliner will return uncrewed.
Scraps of fiery debris came flying off the spaceship as it descended over the Indian Ocean northwest of Australia, dramatic video from an onboard camera showed, but it ultimately held together and survived atmospheric reentry.
Elon Musk - the owner of SpaceX, the world's most successful rocket launcher – seized on the failure to prevail over state-owned China Great Wall Industry Corp (CGWIC) as Jakarta's company of choice for putting satellites into space.
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