The Polaris Dawn mission is set for Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, and it will see four private citizens orbit Earth in a SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft for five days, during which a series of experiments ...

SpaceX rocket is set to blast off from Vandenberg, sending Starlink satellites into space. Depending on weather, people in ...

Polaris Dawn's pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet and medical officer Anna Menon sits down with Spectrum News and share their experiences with the five-day mission.

Polaris Dawn Billionaire Pulls Off Historic First Commercial Spacewalk Two crew members emerged from the Dragon spacecraft to test their new SpaceX suits—and to take in the spectacular view.

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 w… ...

The image was captured three days into the mission on September 13. There have been many images captured of Earth from low-Earth orbit, but the one snapped by the Polaris Dawn crew is still stunning.

Anna “Walker” Menon in space. Credit: Polaris Dawn crew, Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms ...

On September 12, 2024, SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn astronauts completed the first commercial spacewalk in history. The historic moment was live-streamed as Commander Jared Isaacman and mission specialist ...

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Poteet was part of a four-person crew onboard Polaris Dawn, a historic mission that broke boundaries and sent Poteet and three other civilians higher into orbit than any other mission since the 1970s.

Polaris Dawn flew 1,400 kilometers above Earth, farther away from Earth than any humans have been since Apollo 17 in 1972. And it would not be a proper space mission if it did not have lots of ...

Polaris Dawn was not the first private space mission. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (now retired) and Blue Origin’s New Shepard have been taking passengers on suborbital jaunts for years.