THE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE POLARIS DAWN MISSION ARE NOW BACK HOME. THEIR HISTORIC JOURNEY INCLUDED THE FIRST EVER PRIVATE SPACEWALK DONE BY BILLIONAIRE JARED ISAACMAN. AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE ...

The Polaris Dawn mission stands out for several reasons. In terms of science and technology, the highlight is the test of new spacesuits for extravehicular activity (or EVA). A spacesuit that ...

Polaris Dawn was the first of three missions of the Polaris Program. Polaris Dawn was the gate-opener mission to the larger Polaris Program, a set of at least three anticipated missions bankrolled ...

Days after returning to Earth, the four civilian crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission opened up about their experience seeing the planet from orbit, floating in weightlessness and conducting ...

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, in which billionaire Jared Isaacman and three other crew members traveled to space in a Crew Dragon, has made headlines for including the first-ever private spacewalk.

A member of the Polaris Dawn flight crew performed the first violin solo in space — appropriately to the tune of a “Star Wars” theme — after participating in the first-ever civilian spacewalk.

The SpaceX-made spacesuits worn by the Polaris Dawn crew are likely the first iteration of what will eventually be worn by those future settlers. SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn crew have completed ...

Polaris Dawn orbited about 460 miles above Earth, at one point reaching an altitude of 875 miles, which broke the record for non-lunar missions last set by the Apollo flights in the 1970s.

This was Isaacman’s second chartered flight with SpaceX, with two more still ahead under his personally financed space exploration program named Polaris after the North Star. He paid an ...

SpaceX brought home the four crew members of Polaris Dawn with a splashdown landing off the coast of Florida early Sunday. The Crew Dragon Resilience, which launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from ...

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The five-day space voyage known as Polaris Dawn ended safely Sunday as four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Dragon splashed down off the coast of Florida, wrapping up a groundbreaking commercial mission.