Today’s Polaris Dawn launch is due to take place in under an hour, with the Falcon 9 rocket blasting off from the Kennedy ...

During a previous St. Jude benefit, Yohn won a fighter jet flight with the Polaris Program team. In the days leading up to Tuesday's launch, he will be flying in a L-39 Albatross jet with John ...

The spacewalkers tested new SpaceX-designed pressure suits that could eventually be used by civilian astronauts on the moon ...

Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX crew trainer Sarah Gillis plan to open the forward hatch of their Polaris Dawn ...

Lehigh Valley tech billionaire Jared Isaacman performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth on Thursday ...

The CEO has more than 7,000 hours of flight experience, and has flown in over 100 airshows with the Black Diamond Jet Team, a civilian aerobatic display ... Isaacman also helped fund the Polaris Dawn ...

A space mission has seen two individuals - Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis - become the first two people to carry out a privately-funded spacewalk.

The crew spent five days in orbit on a mission that includes the first spacewalk by astronauts from the commercial sector.