Polaris Dawn Crew Achieve Record High Orbit Above Earth Written 11 September 2024
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Artist’s rendering of Polaris Dawn. | Credit: SpaceX; Wikipedia; (Fair Use)
The New York Times reports, “After launching early on Tuesday, the billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew traveled to altitudes not visited by any astronaut since the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and ’70s. … Two of them, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, have now gone farther from the planet than any other women ever.”
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