After a historic mission, the Polaris Dawn mission, flown by Crew Dragon Resilience with private astronauts, has successfully splashed down off the Florida coast. Polaris Dawn, which made history with the highest altitude attained by a crewed spacecraft since 1972, and the first commercial spacewalk, returned to Earth early on Sunday, Sept. 15.
The Crew Dragon splashed down off the Dry Tortugas at 3:37 AM EDT (07:37 UTC) on Sunday. Recovery ship Shannon is in the Gulf, while sister ship Megan has returned to Port Canaveral after going to the station the day before. Shannon was on site for the recovery of this mission.