Polar-Orbiting Private Charter Ends With West Coast Splashdown

Irene Klotz April 04, 2025
SpaceX Fram2 splashdown
Credit: SpaceX
A quartet of civilian polar explorers returned from a 3.5-day spaceflight with SpaceX’s first crewed Dragon splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the culmination of a year-long effort to minimize the chance of the spacecraft’s jettisoned unpressurized trunk section impacting populated areas. Dragon...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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