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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]
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 ...
First mission of the Polaris Program, consisting of two Crew Dragon missions followed by the first crewed Starship mission. The highest Earth orbit to be achieved by a crewed spacecraft, and the farthest humans will venture from Earth since Apollo. First EVA by a private astronaut.
The mission was part of a fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, to which Isaacman pledged to donate $100 million. [9] In total to date, Isaacman has donated over $125 million to St. Jude. Isaacman commanded the Polaris Dawn mission, the first private spaceflight in a series of missions named the Polaris Program.
The Polaris Dawn mission conducted the first ever commercial spacewalk in September upon a Crew Dragon during an elliptic orbit. Other national-level scientific space missions included NASA 's Europa Clipper probe to Europa , and ESA 's Hera probes both launched in October 2024.
Anna Menon (née Wilhelm; born December 24, 1985) is an American engineer employed by SpaceX as lead space operations and a mission director. She flew on Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX on behalf of Jared Isaacman.
Polaris Dawn Scott " Kidd " Poteet (born December 7, 1973) is an American retired pilot from the United States Air Force . He was the pilot of the Polaris Dawn mission in 2024, a privately funded human spaceflight operated by SpaceX for Jared Isaacman .
The Polaris Dawn mission will also aim to reach the highest orbit around Earth for a crewed mission — with eyes on surpassing the 1966 record set by NASA’s Gemini 11 by 20 miles (32 kilometers).