Update: Polaris Dawn has been delayed 24-hours until Tuesday, which SpaceX said is needed to give teams time to complete preflight checkouts. Four non-government astronauts are about to embark on ...

At 3:36 a.m. ET on Sunday, the Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew safely landed near the coast of the Dry Tortugas in Florida, ...

Spacewalk Recap: Scroll down to read updates from the September 12 SpaceX Polaris Dawn spacewalk. On Wednesday, the crew of Polaris Dawn had traveled further than any human in 52 years, and their ...

The Polaris Dawn crew Jared Isaacman, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon explain the experiments conducted ...

Those were just a few highlights of September’s Polaris Dawn mission: a five-day, four-person orbital spaceflight purchased from SpaceX and commanded by Jared Isaacman, the billionaire CEO of ...

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The Polaris Dawn mission lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:23 a.m. EST after several delays due to inclement weather. Near the end of the first day of the mission, the SpaceX Crew ...

Polaris Dawn is closely tied to SpaceX: it launched on a Falcon 9 rocket, traveled in the reusable Crew Dragon capsule Resilience, and took the company’s newly designed spacesuits out for a spin.

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission featuring the first spacewalk by private citizens is now slated for launch this Friday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Spearheaded by ...

CU Boulder is hosting a very special visit from the SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts. All engineering students are invited to join us for a discussion of the mission and a Q&A with Jared Isaacman, Scott ...