The private Polaris Dawn astronauts keep notching milestones in Earth orbit. The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched ...

Update: Polaris Dawn has been delayed 24-hours until Tuesday, which SpaceX said is needed to give teams time to complete preflight checkouts. Four non-government astronauts are about to embark on ...

After an amazing orbital flight, billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman says he aims to safeguard human civilization by spreading ...

After leaving behind the Van Allen Belt, Polaris Dawn dropped to a closer Earth orbit to perform experiments. The highlight was the first-ever spacewalk by a commercial (non-government ...

It is not a sound often heard in Earth orbit, but in the newly released footage of ... As exclusively first shared by ...

During the September mission, the Polaris Dawn crew conducted the first commercial spacewalk as well as ventured into the lower band of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts, which are areas within ...

Polaris Dawn was a private astronaut mission ... in space for really long periods of time and going really far from Earth,” said Menon. For example, crewmembers stuck a device called an ...

Polaris Program’s Polaris Dawn mission is a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities while continuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes here on Earth.

“Polaris Dawn is a pretty substantial milestone in human spaceflight ... Through the visor I could see, if I really looked, I ...

"We all look forward to our friends at the Artemis to take us to even greater heights," said commander Jared Isaacman as mission control informed the Polaris Dawn crew they had reached 1,400 km (870 ...