Polaris Dawn is a commercial spaceflight program design to push the limits of space travel and exploration while testing new spacesuit designs, according to the Polaris Dawn website. "This Dragon ...

Update 8/27: The Polaris Dawn launch has been pushed back a day and is now planned for Wednesday, August 28 after a helium leak was detected ahead of its takeoff. After a nearly three-year interlude, ...

As The New York Times explains, the Crew Dragon has no airlock like the International Space Station does, so the astronauts will have to let the all the air out of the vehicle before opening one of ...

[UPDATE: Weather concerns have prompted the mission team to pause the countdown clock. It’s now targeting 5:23 a.m. ET for launch, nearly two hours later than originally planned. However, a final ...

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We’ve wrapped up our live coverage for the day. Read more about Polaris Dawn’s historic milestone here, or scroll through the posts below to relive the first commercial spacewalk as it happened. First ...

In what marks a milestone for the future of commercial space travel, the crew of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience are stepping outside their spacecraft in the first private spacewalk. Part of the wider ...

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 the ...