The launch of Polaris Dawn from Kennedy Space Center includes the first civilian commercial spacewalk and other factors that ...

The private Polaris Dawn crew notched another milestone on Thursday (Sept. 12), beaming photos home using SpaceX's Starlink ...

Two astronauts, a billionaire and an engineer, completed the world’s first private spacewalk on Thursday outside a SpaceX capsule, marking a significant achievement in commercial spaceflight. Wearing ...

While only two of the four members of the crew physically left the SpaceX capsule — engineer Sarah Gillis, 30, and Jared Isaacman, the 41-year-old billionaire tech entrepreneur who is funding the ...

The Polaris Dawn mission took off Tuesday morning. The civilian crew launched aboard a SpaceX capsule into Earth’s orbit to ...

A four-person crew of civilians who will also aim to conduct the first commercial spacewalk just took flight in SpaceX's latest mission.

New spacesuits, untested astronauts, and a lot that can go wrong make this five-day mission unusually complex, but with a ...

HOPEFULLY THIS CREW WON’T BE WAITING TOO MUCH LONGER. ANOTHER LAUNCH ATTEMPT IS SCHEDULED FOR THE POLARIS DAWN MISSION. THIS COMING MONDAY. THAT’S ACCORDING TO THE FAA’S CURRENT OPERATIONS PLAN.

The Polaris Dawn launch day still remains up in the air. Why? Unfavorable weather forecasts near Florida’s coastline, where the crew's Dragon capsule will splash down following its five-day ...

Elon Musk‘s spacecraft manufacturing company SpaceX said late on Thursday that it is yet to zero in on the next opportunity to launch the all-civilian Polaris Dawn mission after multiple delays ...

"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).

The Falcon 9 rocket that will power the Polaris Dawn mission to orbit. SpaceX The commander of SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn mission has apologized to those who traveled from far and wide to ...