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WASHINGTON — The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, which made history when its crew conducted the first spacewalk by non-government astronauts, concluded early Sunday with a splashdown off the coast of Florida.The Dragon spacecraft plunged into the ocean at 3:37 am , a webcast of the arrival showed, with a recovery team deploying in the predawn darkness to retrieve the capsule and crew.The capsule was lifted from the water and onto the recovery vessel half an hour later.
Since Dragon doesn't have an airlock, the entire crew were exposed to the vacuum of space. Mission pilot Poteet and SpaceX engineer 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.
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