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After five months of training, the first all-civilian SpaceX crew left the planet this week

16 September 2021 - 20:39 By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Steve Gorman

A billionaire e-commerce executive and three less-wealthy private citizens chosen to join him blasted off from Florida on Wednesday aboard a SpaceX rocket ship and soared into orbit, the first all-civilian crew ever to circle the Earth from space...

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