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While Isaacman and Gillis test the mobility of the spacesuits, Poteet and Menon will remain strapped in their seats and ready to support. SpaceX Polaris Dawn Zero G indicator Update 5:11 a.m ...

based on Crew Dragon's price of roughly $55 million a seat for other flights. The others in Polaris include mission pilot Scott Poteet, 50, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel; and SpaceX ...

SpaceX successfully launched a crew of four—including a billionaire—as part of a private space mission known as Polaris Dawn early Tuesday, as the company looks to make history with the first ...

While the daring mission has concluded, it's only the first of three spaceflights planned under the larger Polaris Program. At 3:36 a.m. ET on Sunday, the Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew safely ...

This was followed by the opening of the main parachutes minutes later as the spacecraft carrying the Polaris Dawn crew slowed its decent towards the water early Sunday. Cheers erupted from the ...

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Recently, this innovation-driven businessman has launched Polaris Dawn, which is a five-day mission. It is the first of three Polaris Program testing and development missions that Isaacman and ...

By Yan Zhuang After conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk and traveling farther from Earth than anyone in more than half a century, the astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission returned to ...

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 ...

"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).