SpaceX: "This is the first time that a flight has taken place in orbit without any professional astronaut on board"
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The capsule transporting the first four space tourists from the company SpaceX landing in the Atlantic Ocean, off Florida, Saturday, September 18, 2021. AP
By: Florent Guignard Follow
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The first four space tourists have circled the earth around 50 times, orbiting the earth for 3 days, aboard the SpaceX capsule.
They came back safe and sound that night.
Is this a turning point in the conquest of space as declared by billionaire Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX?
To talk about it, Florent Guignard is online with Olivier Sanguy, editor-in-chief of space news at the Cité de l'Espace in Toulouse.
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