Spectacular, if ghostly, infrared images of the spacecraft during ... the flights or how much SpaceX funded on its own. Polaris Dawn is SpaceX's fifth commercial Crew Dragon flight to orbit ...

Related: Meet the four private Polaris Dawn astronauts SpaceX will launch into orbit ... For instance, the team intends to capture X-ray images of radiation in the Van Allen Belts — ring-shaped ...

Polaris Dawn is the first of three human spaceflight missions that will demonstrate new technologies, conduct extensive research, and ultimately culminate in the first flight of SpaceX’s Starship with ...

SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn crew have completed the first commercial spacewalk! “SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” ...

SpaceX co-owner Elon Musk said on X that the capsule would “pass several times through the orbital altitudes of more than 10,000 satellites and fragments of space debris.” ...

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include ... be the first real-world test of SpaceX’s own extravehicular activity ...

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance docked with the International Space Station just after midnight Sunday beginning the ...

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The first will be SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission which keeps being delayed and is now scheduled for Monday. The second one will be done by Roscosmos where two cosmonauts and one astronaut will ...