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 SpaceX launches billionaire's private crew on milestone spacewalk mission. Four private astronauts blasted into space early on Tuesday in a modified SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, kicking off the company's five-day Polaris Dawn mission, which aims to test new spacesuit designs and conduct the first private spacewalk.
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 High Orbital Altitude: The crew will reach an orbital altitude of approximately 435 miles (700 km), the highest humans have traveled since the Apollo missions in 1972. This altitude is significantly higher than the International Space Station (ISS) 
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