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Joe Raedle/Getty Images (CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — After two weeks of delays, the ambitious Polaris Dawn space mission, led by billionaire Jared Isaacman and in collaboration with SpaceX, launched early Tuesday morning. The four-person civilian crew launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday at 5:23 a.m. ET in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, […]

The Crew of the next SpaceX private astronaut flight called Polaris Dawn, (Left to Right) Anna Menon, who works to develop astronaut operations for SpaceX, Scott Poteet, who served as the mission director of the Inspiration4 mission SpaceX, Jared Isaacman, who is financing the mission and Sarah Gillis, lead space operations engineer, SpaceX. Photo by […]

Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images (BOCA CHICA, Texas) — About three minutes after SpaceX’s Starship rocket launched Thursday morning, the boosters failed to separate, and it was forced to self-destruct. Despite not going according to plan, SpaceX said it was still a successful first part of the mission, and CEO Elon Musk congratulated the […]