A space mission that included the first private spacewalk caught a glimpse of Western Australia as it came back to Earth after a five-day voyage.
The first civilian crew to take a walk in space arrived back to Earth on Sunday, but not before capturing a view of Australia from a rarely seen perspective. American spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which has been launched into space 47 times, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida after a five-day trip.
In the hours before Dragon came back to Earth, SpaceX shared video on social media platform X that was captured from the aircraft as it passed over Australia. Video seen by more than half a million people on X shows an upside down view of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area on the Western Australian coast. The UNESCO-listed area is the largest and most diverse sea grass ecosystem in the world and is home to fish, endangered green turtles, dugongs and the sharks it got its name from.
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