SpaceX’s private Polaris Dawn astronauts land to end historic spacewalk mission (video)

Polaris Dawn has landed.

The historic SpaceX astronaut mission, which included the first-ever private spacewalk, returned to Earth today (Sept. 15), landing safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida at 3:36 a.m. EDT (07:36 GMT).

"Polaris Dawn, our mission is complete. Thank you for all the great help in completing this mission," said mission commander Jared Isaacman after the crew landed in the ocean.

The re-entry was witnessed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. "We actually had a pretty good view of the Polaris Dawn coming in. We were all kind of huddled up in ...