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The astronauts on the historic private space mission Polaris Dawn splashed down near the southern tip of Florida early Sunday, after a five-day voyage that included the world’s first-ever commercial spacewalk. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the four astronauts touched down in the Gulf of Mexico at around 3:30 am (0730 GMT), mission controllers said. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman led the chartered flight, in coordination with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who remained on the ground. Isaacman, along with private astronauts Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, lif…

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