For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the first-ever private spacewalk. Not only would this be the first time anyone ...

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) is partnering with the Polaris Program to collect biomedical data from its spaceflight participants during the Polaris Dawn mission.

The second stage's single engine shut down nine minutes after ... The rest of the Polaris Dawn mission will be devoted to completing the planned bio-medical research before setting up for re ...

The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched early this morning ... Roaring off the launch pad, the rocket's nine Merlin engines cast a blisteringly bright light on the still waters around ...

The Dawn spacecraft is carrying a total of three scientific experiments on board. Alongside the camera system, which will acquire images of the surface of the asteroids, measurements will be carried ...

Few details about the second Polaris mission have been released. On its website, the Polaris Program says only that the second flight will build upon Polaris Dawn, continuing “to expand the ...

The mission, called Polaris Dawn, is the first of three funded by the founder of payments processing business Shift4. He is onboard as commander alongside his close friend Scott 'Kidd' Poteet ...

Hazy images revealed something bright and mysterious shining on the dark planet’s surface, like animal… After spending nearly eight years floating through deep space, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft ...

Scientists are still trying to understand the toll that spaceflight takes on the human body. With SpaceX's civilian Polar Dawn mission, which lasted five days and wrapped up last month, we're ...

The first will be SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission which keeps being delayed and is now scheduled for Monday. The second one will be done by Roscosmos where two cosmonauts and one astronaut will ...

The privately-funded Polaris Dawn space mission that splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico last month was one for the record books. The four-person crew traveled farther into space than any human ...

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission featuring the first spacewalk by private citizens is now slated for launch this Friday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Spearheaded by ...