https://apnews.com/article/spacex-private-spacewalk-polaris-dawn-e5635c75b15b2f298e426b4992bcde86
A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers.
SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot.
They pulled off the first private spacewalk while orbiting nearly 460 miles (740 kilometers) above Earth, higher than the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope. Their spacecraft hit a peak altitude of 875 miles (1,408 kilometers) following Tuesday’s liftoff.
Isaacman became only the 264th person to perform a spacewalk since the former Soviet Union scored the first in 1965, and SpaceX’s Sarah Gillis the 265th. Until now, all spacewalks were done by professional astronauts.
周日，一位亿万富翁太空行走者与他的团队一起返回地球，结束了为期五天的太空之旅，这次太空行走比美国宇航局的月球行走者们飞到的高度还要高。
SpaceX 的太空舱在黎明前的黑暗中坠落在佛罗里达州干龟岛附近的墨西哥湾，载着科技企业家贾里德·艾萨克曼、两名 SpaceX 工程师和一名前空军雷鸟飞行员。
他们在距离地球近 460 英里（740 公里）的轨道上完成了首次私人太空行走，比国际空间站和哈勃太空望远镜还要高。他们的太空船在周二升空后达到了 875 英里（1,408 公里）的最高高度。
艾萨克曼成为自 1965 年前苏联首次太空行走以来第 264 位进行太空行走的人，SpaceX 的莎拉·吉利斯是第 265 位。到目前为止，所有太空行走都是由专业宇航员完成的。
