Final safety checks took place there before the crew disembarked from the capsule and began the journey back to dry land. The Polaris Dawn crew includes mission commander Jared Isaacman ...
This was followed by the opening of the main parachutes minutes later as the spacecraft carrying the Polaris Dawn crew slowed its decent towards the water early Sunday. Cheers erupted from the ...
While the daring mission has concluded, it's only the first of three spaceflights planned under the larger Polaris Program. At 3:36 a.m. ET on Sunday, the Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew safely ...
"We actually had a pretty neat view of Polaris Dawn entering," astronaut Mike Barratt radioed flight controllers in Houston. "All of us were more or less crowded in the (multi-window) cupola ...
This was Isaacman’s second chartered flight with SpaceX, with two more still ahead under his personally financed space exploration program named Polaris after the North Star. He paid an ...
Sept. 15 (UPI) --SpaceX's Polaris Dawn early Sunday splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico after a five-day mission that included the world's first commercial spacewalk and humans the farthest from ...
Thursday’s spacewalk took place as the vehicle orbited about 115 to 455 miles (185 to 732 kilometers) above Earth. The riskiest part of the journey may be over, but the Polaris Dawn crew still ...
The Polaris Program is a planned series of three private crewed space missions led by U.S. billionaire Jared Isaacman. The missions will utilize SpaceX technology, with the rockets, crewed ...
By Yan Zhuang After conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk and traveling farther from Earth than anyone in more than half a century, the astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission returned to ...
Elon Musk's incredible gift to Chechen leader Kadyrov: a Tesla with a machine gun SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' mission was successfully completed on Sunday in the waters off the coast of Florida ...