The first of three human spaceflights under the Polaris Program, Polaris Dawn has been jointly planned and funded by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and Elon Musk's SpaceX. As commander of ...

The Polaris Dawn mission patch depicts a spacewalking astronaut outside of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft as reflected in the spacesuit visor of another crew member. (Image credit: Polaris Program ...

The suits are especially key to SpaceX’s ambition to build the first permanent bases on the moon and Mars. The bases “will require millions of spacesuits,” as the Polaris Dawn website says.

Jared Isaacman, commander. Jared Isaacman led the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission in 2021 before announcing Polaris Dawn and the two future Polaris Program missions earlier this year. Isaacman is the ...

Polaris Dawn is the first of three human spaceflights under the Polaris Program, all of which are intended to test SpaceX technologies needed to carry humans deep into the cosmos.

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.

Polaris Dawn—a five-day, four-person orbital mission to research human health both in space and on Earth—is the first of three potential human spaceflights under the Polaris Program. SpaceX ...

Polaris Dawn is the first of three human spaceflights under the Polaris Program, all of which are intended to test SpaceX technologies needed to carry humans deep into the cosmos.

The Polaris program and SpaceX have partnered with more than 30 institutions around the world to perform the research, which will focus largely on human health. “We are born into 1G,” said Menon.

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 ...

SpaceX Polaris program launches on historic mission with private crew. The flight would feature the first commercial spacewalk and travel farther than any human spaceflight missions since Apollo.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the crew of the Polaris mission lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Tuesday. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images ...