The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule early Tuesday morning (Sept. 10). Later that day, the astronauts got farther from Earth — 870 miles (1,400.7 kilometers) — than any crewed mission since the Apollo era.

The Polaris Dawn crew on Thursday shared pictures from space on social media platform X with the help of Starlink satellite internet, showing the Earth from outer space. What Happened: “Sent to you from space over a beam of Starlink laser light,

One the astronauts for the Polaris Dawn mission has sent a video of herself performing a Star Wars theme by using SpaceX's satellite internet network Starlink.