Four civilians on SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission ... ever private spacewalk on Thursday while zooming at more than 17,500 mph above Earth. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew Dragon ...

With Polaris Dawn crewmates ... 458 miles for the spacewalk and the remainder of the five-day mission. To prevent decompression sickness, also known as the bends, during the crew's transition ...

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission ... that calling it a spacewalk would be a bit of a stretch. Neither crew member ever fully ...

If all goes to plan, two members of Polaris Dawn's all-civilian crew will attempt the first commercial spacewalk on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 5:58 a.m. EDT / 2:58 a.m. PDT. The livestream will begin ...

The first U.S. spacewalk was in 1965, aboard a Gemini capsule, and used a similar procedure to the one planned for Polaris Dawn: the capsule was depressurised, the hatch opened, and a spacesuited ...

Internet Service Provider (ISP) Starlink's parent company SpaceX Tuesday launched the Polaris Dawn manned mission ... of the first-ever private spacewalk in history. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted ...

Two NASA astronauts steppes outside the International Space Station on Thursday to take part in U.S. Spacewalk 93, NASA's fifth-ever all-female spacewalk.

The Polaris Dawn crew, led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, reached an altitude of 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) above Earth’s surface, surpassing the previous record set during the Gemini 11 ...