SpaceX Polaris Dawn private spacewalk mission
22 Aug
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn private spacewalk mission

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SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew lands at launch site ahead of 1st-ever private spacewalk mission (photos, video)
20 Aug
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew lands at launch site ahead of 1st-ever private spacewalk mission (photos, video)

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NASA Space Technology The Polaris Dawn crew, Anna Menon, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Jared Isaacman, and Sarah Gillis after their arrival at KSC, Aug. 19, 2024.(Image credit: Space.com / Josh Dinner)CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Members of the Polaris Dawn mission landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) today (Aug. 19), with as little as a week until their launch to space.Polaris Dawn is the second privately crewed SpaceX mission funded by philanthropist billionaire Jared Isaacman, and the first of at least three launches he hopes to fly under the "Polaris" program. The launch stands as a follow-up to Isaacman's 2021 Inspiration4 mission, in which he and three other private citizens launched on the first-ever civilian-only spaceflight. Inspiration4 helped raise $250 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and Isaacman hopes to build on that momentum...
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Polaris Dawn private astronaut mission ready for launch
20 Aug
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Polaris Dawn private astronaut mission ready for launch

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Top Stories Tamfitronics KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — A private astronaut mission that will attempt the first commercial spacewalk on a is ready for launch in a week on a SpaceX Crew Dragon.The four-person crew of the Polaris Dawn mission arrived here Aug. 19 for final preparations for their launch, scheduled for the early morning hours of Aug. 26 on a Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A.The mission, designed to last five days, will take the spacecraft to altitudes as high as 1,400 kilometers, the highest for a crewed mission since Apollo 17 went to the moon in 1972. The mission will also test laser intersatellite links with SpaceX Starlink spacecraft and perform 40 experiments.However, the highlight of the mission will be a spacewalk, the first conducted on a private mission and the first done...
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