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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 ...
Polaris Dawn flew 1,400 kilometers above Earth, farther away from Earth than any humans have been since Apollo 17 in 1972. And it would not be a proper space mission if it did not have lots of ...
The Polaris Dawn mission has been scheduled for launch three times since Isaacman and his crew arrived to quarantine in Cape Canaveral, and all three launches were scrubbed.
Sarah Gillis, mission specialist, steps out of the manned Polaris Dawn mission's "Dragon" capsule after it splashed down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida on September 15, 2024.
The mission, known as Polaris Dawn, lifted off at 5:24 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“The Polaris Dawn crew began Flight Day 2 with an incredible milestone – Dragon reached an apogee of more than 1,400 kilometers, marking the farthest humans have traveled in space since the ...
The SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down at 3:37 a.m. Sunday off the Florida coast, bringing to an end a historic commercial spaceflight known as the Polaris Dawn mission.
The Polaris Dawn mission attempted a historic spacewalk. It was a test of the abilities SpaceX will need to one day build a city on Mars. SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission nails the first-ever ...