Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed the first launch of the private Polaris Program early Tuesday carrying four astronauts, two of whom will undertake the first commercial spacewalk. A SpaceX Crew ...

Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman (who also funded the mission) and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis together spent almost half an hour outside their spacecraft at an altitude of some 700 km ...

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.

IN STUDIO WITH MORE ON THIS HISTORIC MISSION. THE POLARIS DAWN MADE A SMOOTH WATER LANDING OFF THE COAST OF CAPE CANAVERAL THIS MORNING. NEW HAMPSHIRE’S OWN SCOTT POTEET PILOTED THE SPACE X ...

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 ...

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.

A Crew Dragon spacecraft splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico to end the Polaris Dawn mission Sept. 15. Credit: SpaceX webcast PARIS — A Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico ...

THIS WEEK’S POLARIS DAWN MISSION ISN’T JUST FOCUSED ON HARD SCIENCE RESEARCH. IT’S ALSO CONNECTING PEOPLE THROUGH MUSIC ON AND OFF EARTH. THAT’S CREW MEMBER SARAH GILLIS, PLAYING ALONG ...