SpaceX's Polaris Dawn Mission, bound for low-Earth orbit, had a successful liftoff at 0923 GMT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (Sep 10). Four crew members aboard the Dragon capsule will be passing as close to Earth as 190 km (118 miles) and as far as 1,400 km (870 miles), the farthest any humans will have ventured since the end of the US Apollo moon programme in 1972.

Successful liftoff for SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission attempting first-ever private spacewalk

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Successful liftoff for SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission attempting first-ever private spacewalk