Update for Sept. 9: SpaceX is counting down toward a 3:38 a.m. EDT (0738 GMT) launch of the Polaris Dawn mission. A livestream is scheduled to go live at about 12:05 a.m. EDT (0405 GMT). Follow our ...

Polaris Dawn crewmembers Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis are about to make history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Update for 11 ...

The Polaris Dawn mission is currently scheduled to launch on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:38 a.m. EDT (0738 GMT) from Florida's Cape Canaveral. When you purchase through links on our ...

Early this morning, Jared Isaacman, commander of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, turned a hand crank to open the top hatch of a Crew Dragon capsule, then slowly emerged into space—460 miles above the ...

A Falcon 9 rocket streaked into the black predawn sky above Florida on Tuesday, carrying four people on the most ambitious private human spaceflight to date. The crew of the Polaris Dawn mission, led ...

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, the ...

This first ever private spacewalk will be bringing some serious style to outer space. SpaceX's privately-funded crewed mission, Polaris Dawn, is moving toward a launch sometime this summer. The ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The private Polaris Dawn astronauts keep notching milestones in Earth orbit. The four-person ...

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire funding the Polaris Program of private astronaut missions, said the first mission, Polaris Dawn, is scheduled for summer. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust ORLANDO — A ...

The mission is taking people farther from Earth than anyone has traveled since the end of NASA’s Apollo moon missions. By Kenneth Chang On Tuesday morning, Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, ...

Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 integrated payment processing solutions, on Thursday participated in the first-ever private spacewalk by a group of astronauts who left a SpaceX capsule after a delay of ...

The Crew of the SpaceX private astronaut flight Polaris Dawn, Anna Menon, who works to develop astronaut operations for SpaceX, Scott Poteet, who served as the mission director of the Inspiration4 ...