SpaceX successfully launched a crew of four—including a billionaire— as part of a private space mission known as Polaris Dawn early on Tuesday, as the company looks to create history with the first-ever private spacewalk and the furthest crewed space flight since NASA’s Apollo moon missions over 50 years ago.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule, carrying the crew of the Polaris ... [+]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched the crew onboard the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:23 a.m. EDT.
U.S. entrepreneur and billionaire Jared Isaacman, 41, is part of the four-member crew along with Scott Poteet, a retired U.S. Air Force pilot, and senior SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis.
Tuesday’s launch was delayed by nearly two hours due to poor weather conditions at the launch site—an issue that had also prevented the mission’s first launch attempt on August 28.
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