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The Dawn spacecraft is carrying a total of three scientific experiments on board. Alongside the camera system, which will acquire images of the surface of the asteroids, measurements will be carried ...

Update: Polaris Dawn has been delayed 24-hours until Tuesday, which SpaceX said is needed to give teams time to complete preflight checkouts. Four non-government astronauts are about to embark on ...

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the first-ever private spacewalk. Not only would this be the first time anyone ...

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) partnered with the Polaris Program to collect biomedical data from its spaceflight participants during the Polaris Dawn mission. Polaris ...

The Polaris Dawn launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 4-person crew is expected to spend up to five days in orbit.

The first will be SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission which keeps being delayed and is now scheduled for Monday. The second one will be done by Roscosmos where two cosmonauts and one astronaut will ...