COOLEST STORY OF THE DAY BY FAR. IF YOU THINK THIS WAS AWESOME TO WATCH ONLINE, JUST IMAGINE HOW IT MUST HAVE FELT FOR THE PRIVATE CREW OF POLARIS DAWN TO TAKE A STEP OUTSIDE INTO SPACE THIS MORNING.

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 ...

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission, initiated by Jared Isaacman, successfully conducted the first privately managed spacewalk. The mission, launched on August 27 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...

PART OF THE POLARIS DAWN SPACE MISSION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ELON MUSK’S SPACE X. WE ONE LAUNCHING FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER IN FLORIDA EARLIER THIS WEEK AFTER UNFAVORABLE WEATHER CAUSED WEEKS ...

While the daring mission has concluded, it's only the first of three spaceflights planned under the larger Polaris Program. At 3:36 a.m. ET on Sunday, the Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew safely ...

This was followed by the opening of the main parachutes minutes later as the spacecraft carrying the Polaris Dawn crew slowed its decent towards the water early Sunday. Cheers erupted from the ...

SpaceX's historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission has been delayed again. Polaris Dawn was originally scheduled to launch early Monday morning (Aug. 26) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

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Recently, this innovation-driven businessman has launched Polaris Dawn, which is a five-day mission. It is the first of three Polaris Program testing and development missions that Isaacman and ...

"We actually had a pretty neat view of Polaris Dawn entering," astronaut Mike Barratt radioed flight controllers in Houston. "All of us were more or less crowded in the (multi-window) cupola ...

The four have been orbiting Earth aboard Crew Dragon since Tuesday's pre-dawn launch from Florida of the Polaris Dawn mission. Isaacman "egressed Dragon" and conducted his first "suit mobility ...

"The primary factor driving the launch timing for Polaris Dawn is the splashdown weather within Dragon's limits," Mission commander Jared Isaacman posted Thursday on X (formerly Twitter).