Jared Isaacman, commander of the Polaris Dawn mission, has shared a video featuring SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft reentering ...

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Days after returning to Earth, the four civilian crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission opened up about their experience seeing the planet from orbit, floating in weightlessness and conducting ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

according to his Polaris Dawn biography. He also served in combat and was commander of the 64th Aggressor Squadron and USAF Thunderbird No. 4 demonstration pilot. Poteet is a long-time business ...

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 ...

Named "Polaris Dawn," the mission flew to an altitude of 1,408.1 km on the first day of the flight. This was the highest Earth-orbit mission ever flown, and the farthest humans have traveled from ...

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 ...