Tech billionaire returns to Earth after first private spacewalk

Their spacecraft hit a peak altitude of 875 miles following Tuesday’s lift-off.

The private spacewalk took place on Thursday (SpaceX/AP)

A billionaire spacewalker has returned to Earth with his crew, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has travelled since Nasa’s moonwalkers.

SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the pre-dawn darkness on Sunday, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot.