Polaris Dawn was the first of three missions of the Polaris Program. Polaris Dawn was the gate-opener mission to the larger Polaris Program, a set of at least three anticipated missions bankrolled ...

The Polaris Program is a planned series of three private crewed space missions led by U.S. billionaire Jared Isaacman. The missions will utilize SpaceX technology, with the rockets, crewed ...

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A helium leak at the launch site of the Polaris Dawn mission at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida pushed back Tuesday’s attempt, while poor weather forced SpaceX to stand down from the ...

The Polaris Dawn mission, an ambitious five-day journey to the upper reaches of Earth's orbit, will take the crew higher than an human has traveled in more than 50 years. After descending to a ...

Aug 26 (Reuters) - The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission carried out its spacewalk on Thursday with two astronauts emerging out of the capsule in Earth's orbit, tethered to the Crew Dragon spacecraft in ...

A four-person crew of civilians on board SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission unlocked the hatch of their capsule and made history as the first group of non-government astronauts to conduct a spacewalk.

SpaceX postponed its groundbreaking Polaris Dawn mission on Monday, hours before it was scheduled to liftoff from Florida. In a post, the company said it is investigating a “ground-side ...

Update: The Polaris Dawn flight scheduled for Tuesday was delayed until Wednesday at the earliest, according to a message posted on SpaceX social media Monday night. Teams found a helium leak ...

The company said the Polaris Dawn launch was off until at least Friday, weather permitting. "Our launch criteria are heavily constrained by forecasted splashdown weather conditions," mission ...

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