The Polaris Program is a planned series of three private crewed space missions led by U.S. billionaire Jared Isaacman. The missions will utilize SpaceX technology, with the rockets, crewed ...

The Polaris Dawn mission, an ambitious five-day journey to the upper reaches of Earth's orbit, will take the crew higher than an human has traveled in more than 50 years. After descending to a ...

On Thursday, September 12 the Polaris Dawn crew will attempt the first-ever spacewalk – also known as an extravehicular activity (EVA) – from Dragon,' it explained. 'The EVA is targeted to ...

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The Polaris Dawn mission, conducted by SpaceX but paid for by US entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, is the latest in a series of commercial ventures that are opening up space to anyone rich enough to ...

UPDATE 8/28/24: After pushing back the initial launch from Tuesday to Wednesday this week to check a helium leak in the launch system, SpaceX once again delayed Polaris Dawn’s launch ...

For the Polaris Dawn mission, the iconic image is that of two of the astronauts: first Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur who paid for the flight, then Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer ...

SpaceX officials have called off Polaris Dawn launch attempts Wednesday and Thursday, citing unfavorable weather forecasted in the Dragon capsule's splashdown area off the Florida coastline.

Even assuming the Federal Aviation Administration quickly completes its investigation into the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster mishap and clears SpaceX to resume launches, there will be one more thing that ...

SpaceX’s upcoming Polaris Dawn mission aims to be historic in more ways than one. Polaris Dawn plans to not only orbit Earth higher than any astronauts have in more than 50 years but to also ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule sits on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Polaris Dawn Mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 28, 2024.