Jared Isaacman, astronaut and leader of the Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn missions to space, made a second significant ...

Polaris Dawn mission update: SpaceX Dragon takes crew to highest orbit in 50 years The four astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission traveled to 870 miles above Earth on Tuesday, the highest humans ...

Polaris Dawn was now flying higher than the 853-mile-high altitude that the NASA astronauts Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon reached during the Gemini XI mission.

Polaris Dawn mission: What to know about SpaceX launch and its crew Four private astronauts will rocket into the upper reaches of Earth's orbit on a SpaceX Dragon capsule, where the first-ever ...

The four Polaris Dawn astronauts splashed down safely off the coast of Florida today (Sept. 15), bringing an end to their historic commercial mission.

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission carried out its spacewalk on Thursday with two astronauts emerging out of the capsule in Earth's orbit, tethered to the Crew Dragon spacecraft in the vacuum of space.

An internet entrepreneur and a SpaceX engineer have become the first private astronauts to walk in space.

Polaris Dawn astronauts complete historic first commercial spacewalk Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis each emerged from the space capsule high above Earth. By Andrew Paul ...

SpaceX launched the four-person Polaris Dawn mission to orbit on Tuesday (Sept. 10) to carry out the first spacewalk ever performed by private astronauts.

A crew of four private astronauts made history in the early hours of Thursday when they opened the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule and conducted the first commercial spacewalk. The spacewalk ...

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Is Sending Astronauts to a Literal Radiation Belt to Test New Spacesuits The risky new private space mission will launch on Monday, August 26.

A businessman who led the world’s first all-civilian space mission to orbit the earth and had been nominated to lead NASA by ...