Credit: SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL—The privately funded Polaris Dawn mission underway aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft reached an 870.4-mi.-high orbit on Sept. 10, breaking a 1966 record for the most distant Earth-orbiting crewed spacecraft. Surpassing the 853-mi.-high Gemini 11 apogee record was a personal goal...
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