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 ...

The very first spacewalk was completed in 1965 by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. For the next 59 years, only astronauts working for the American, Russian, and Chinese governments have left their ...

SpaceX has fulfilled its initial part in making history with Polaris Dawn, as it successfully launched the Crew Dragon spacecraft to orbit, aboard its first-stage rocket, Falcon 9. This marks the ...

After launching Tuesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, the SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the crew managed to ascend to 870 miles above Earth's surface. For Polaris Dawn mission specialists Sarah Gillis ...