The mission is taking people farther from Earth than anyone has traveled since the end of NASA’s Apollo moon missions.

The mission is conducting more than 35 scientific tests, mirroring the exploration vessels of the 19th century.

And the crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn attempted one this week and made history with the first spacewalk from a commercial ...

The launch of Polaris Dawn from Kennedy Space Center includes the first civilian commercial spacewalk and other factors that ...

SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronaut Jared Isaacman briefly "touched the void" as he embarked on the first-ever private spacewalk ...

After multiple technical and weather-related delays, the milestone Polaris Dawn mission launched aboard ... upcoming historic mission.] Get Popular Science’s biggest stories delivered to your ...

This could not be more interesting than the adventures a science student experiences. From observing ripples in the water collected in the potholes on the street to recalling the process of ...

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn early Sunday splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico after a five-day mission that included the world's ...

Polaris Dawn was the first of three missions of the Polaris Program. Polaris Dawn was the gate-opener mission to the larger Polaris Program, a set of at least three anticipated missions bankrolled ...

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After rainfall finally cleared from Cape Canaveral, the Polaris Dawn crew roared skyward aboard ... the world's first commercial spacewalk. In a science fiction-esque Tuesday tweet leading up ...