Update: Polaris Dawn has been delayed 24-hours until Tuesday, which SpaceX said is needed to give teams time to complete preflight checkouts. Four non-government astronauts are about to embark on ...

Polaris Dawn is aiming for the first civilian spacewalk on an ambitious mission launching no earlier than Aug. 26. Four astronauts will fly to Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule ...

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the first-ever private spacewalk. Not only would this be the first time anyone ...

Astronaut and CU Boulder alum Sarah Gillis will speak at CU Boulder from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday at Fiske Planetarium, 2414 ...

The Polaris Dawn crew Jared Isaacman, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon explain the experiments conducted ...

Spacewalk Recap: Scroll down to read updates from the September 12 SpaceX Polaris Dawn spacewalk. On Wednesday, the crew of Polaris Dawn had traveled further than any human in 52 years, and their ...

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The privately-funded Polaris Dawn space mission that splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico last month was one for the record books. The four-person crew traveled farther into space than any human ...

Those were just a few highlights of September’s Polaris Dawn mission: a five-day, four-person orbital spaceflight purchased from SpaceX and commanded by Jared Isaacman, the billionaire CEO of ...

For the Polaris Dawn mission, the iconic image is that of two of the astronauts: first Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur who paid for the flight, then Sarah Gillis, a SpaceX engineer ...

is partnering with the Polaris Program to collect biomedical data from its spaceflight participants during the Polaris Dawn mission. Polaris Program’s Polaris Dawn mission is a first-of-its-kind ...

The Polaris Dawn mission lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:23 a.m. EST after several delays due to inclement weather. Near the end of the first day of the mission, the SpaceX Crew ...