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 ...

and Megan McArthur across three Hubble Space Telescope repair flights between 1993 and 2009. Polaris Dawn’s orbit will soar through a region called the South Atlantic Anomaly. Here, the ...

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 ...

White-knuckling it on an unfamiliar trail, I'm trying desperately to keep up in a line of Polaris RZR Pro XP side-by-sides, with one of RZR's employees leading the way. I've done quite a bit of ...

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 ...

One the astronauts for the Polaris Dawn mission has sent a video of herself performing a Star Wars theme by using SpaceX's satellite internet network Starlink. By Michael Kan September 13, 2024 ...

Just before dawn on Tuesday morning, four private citizens sat atop an 80-metre rocket and lifted off on a mission that will take them further than any human has travelled in more than 50 years.

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 ...

The cancellation is due to bad weather forecasted around the time that the Polaris Dawn crew would be returning to Earth in the Dragon for a splashdown landing off the Florida coast. Last week ...

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.

Update 8/27: The Polaris Dawn launch has been pushed back a day and is now planned for Wednesday, August 28 after a helium leak was detected ahead of its takeoff. After a nearly three-year ...

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.