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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 ...
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.
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]
For the just completed so-called Polaris Dawn mission, the founder and CEO of the Shift4 credit card-processing company shared the cost with SpaceX. Isaacman won’t divulge how much he spent ...
Prior to Polaris Dawn, Isaacman was the only member of the Polaris Dawn crew to have been to outer space before, having served in 2021 as mission commander of Inspiration4, the world’s first all ...
The four-member crew of Polaris Dawn are scheduled to embark on their Earth orbit mission as early as Monday, Aug. 26. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that will carry them into orbit will lift off ...
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission launched Tuesday with ambitions to complete the first commercial spacewalk, a key step toward Elon Musk's Mars goal.
The Polaris Dawn crew boarded a SpaceX Dragon capsule for a 5:23 a.m. liftoff Tuesday atop the Falcon 9. The orbital mission will last five days.