From the loud rumbling sounds of the Falcon 9 launching to the empty darkness of space, the Polaris Dawn crew reflected ... was this an intense ride," Scott "Kidd" Poteet, the mission pilot ...

THE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE POLARIS DAWN MISSION ARE NOW BACK HOME. THEIR HISTORIC JOURNEY INCLUDED THE FIRST EVER PRIVATE SPACEWALK DONE BY BILLIONAIRE JARED ISAACMAN. AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE ...

The Polaris Dawn mission stands out for several reasons. In terms of science and technology, the highlight is the test of new spacesuits for extravehicular activity (or EVA). A spacesuit that ...

Days after returning to Earth, the four civilian crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission opened ... “It’s a heck of a ride downhill for sure,” Isaacman said. During their journey, the ...

Polaris Dawn finished its revolutionary spaceflight on Sunday when the four-member crew splashed down off Florida's coast after spending five days in Earth's orbit on the most ambitious commercial ...

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 ...

"We actually had a pretty neat view of Polaris Dawn entering," astronaut Mike Barratt radioed flight controllers in Houston. "All of us were more or less crowded in the (multi-window) cupola ...

This was Isaacman’s second chartered flight with SpaceX, with two more still ahead under his personally financed space exploration program named Polaris after the North Star. He paid an ...

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