SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Mission Just Returned From Space

After an eventful trip filled with spacewalks, live music, and much more, the Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth. This happened very early this morning after a scheduled deorbit burn and eventual Earth reentry.

The crew splashed down before teams at SpaceX made contact, opened the hatch, and officially completed this 6-day mission. Leading up to the reentry process there was quite a bit of prep to ensure everything went smoothly.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Dragon Splashes Down
3:57 - Mission Recap

[alexanderSydneyOz]

What a resounding success. Every step from lift offs to splashdown was, apparently, exactly according to plan.

[XCX]

1.21 gigawatts is a real thing. Has to do with re entry calculation. I love SpaceXs sense of humor

[juliancrooks]

So cool seeing the dragon breathing fire with the thrusters

[Hoopaball]

One small step for Jared, one giant leap for SpaceX.

[ronfullerton]

Thanks for the nice mission rundown you provided us about this commercial flight. How nice the private sector can now go up and do their own experiences and have the sensation of space flight.

[UtahBlender]

Likely the first violin solo in orbit. Glad they’re back!

[jwong.]

1.21 Gigawatts😂 Someone's a Back to the Future fan onboard

[XCX]

If love it.. all that hair floating around, beautiful 👍

[KenNeumeister]

In preparation for interplanetary missions, demonstrate being able to do surgery to address health issues that come up in flight. Where would compatible blood types come from?

[eherrmann]

I really wish that NASA would let them service and raise the orbit of the HST. It's one gyro failure from becoming another piece of space debris.

[pelumitemp]

3:43 bro dapping someone up in a vacuum rated suit. Crazy

[odysseusrex]

This is the second mission Isaacman has paid for, the first being Inspiration4. I don't think another is planned before the Starship mission, but I could be wrong. At the rate things are going though, I'm afraid he's going to have to wait about ten years for that. I hope he is more committed to it than the Japanese guy who was backing Dear Moon.

[markpirisky]

SpaceX-going places. NASA-we can’t even get a crew home!

[renashbellrn]

Can someone sponsor a hairband next time?

[mannyricketson]

I'm glad they look and feel good very good spacex for your success with all your endeavor you make my days bright with you Elon caring 4 humanity

[JohnVance]

Wait, did they do the deorbit burn before closing the nosecone? That'd be a bad time to find a stuck hinge!

[Chris-bgmk]

the real reason they land way out there is all the yahoos with boats in the GoMex. ;-))

[patricklewis]

I'm thinking about how much money people spend climbing to the top of Everest. This is like that. We're talking about 20 million a person? I bet Axiom will be on this soon.

[zmblion]

If i spent 4 days in space with someones hair in my face we would be coming back a little lighter.

[teameh.w]

I still wonder how they do everyday things like go to the toilet and make food..