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Polaris Dawn was a private crewed spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman, the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program.Launched 10 September 2024 as the 14th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, Isaacman and his crew of three — Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon — flew in an elliptic orbit that took them 1,400 kilometers ...
Four civilians comprising the trailblazing Polaris Dawn crew are soon to embark on a daring cosmic mission that includes the first-ever spacewalk made by anyone other than government astronauts ...
Jared Isaacman is the billionaire bankrolling the mission and serving as its commander. This isn't the 41-year-old's first rodeo. In 2021, he funded and flew on the first-ever all-civilian ...
The Polaris Dawn mission's Crew Dragon capsule is seen Wednesday 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above Earth — the farthest humans have traveled since the Apollo program over 50 years ago. - SpaceX
The Polaris Dawn mission, conducted by SpaceX but paid for by US entrepreneur and mission commander Jared Isaacman, is the latest in a series of commercial ventures that are opening up space to ...
The Polaris Dawn mission, financed by Isaacman, in cooperation with SpaceX, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday. Right off the bat, the crew set a new ...
The Polaris Dawn mission also marks the farthest any human has journeyed since the final Apollo mission in 1972 — and the farthest into space a woman has ever traveled.
The second mission in the Polaris Program will launch via a Falcon 9 Block 5 vehicle with a Crew Dragon capsule. SpaceX and Polaris had studied a crewed mission to lift the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit to prevent it from burning up in the atmosphere, [4] [5] but this option was rejected by NASA in June 2024. [6]