partnered with the Polaris Program to collect biomedical data from its spaceflight participants during the Polaris Dawn mission. Polaris Program’s Polaris Dawn mission is a first-of-its-kind effort to ...

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 ...

The Polaris Dawn crew has revealed what it was like to go further in space than any human for 50 years during their historic ...

SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn crew have completed the first commercial spacewalk! “SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” ...

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the first-ever private spacewalk. Not only would this be the first time anyone ...

The privately-funded Polaris Dawn space mission that splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico last month was one for the record books. The four-person crew traveled farther into space than any human ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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