Space X’s Polaris Dawn mission, which will take four astronauts three times farther from Earth than the International Space Station, is expected to launch Monday, bringing many firsts, including a ...

A four-person crew of civilians on board SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission unlocked the hatch of their capsule and made history as the first group of non-government astronauts to conduct a spacewalk.

SpaceX’s upcoming Polaris Dawn mission aims to be historic in more ways than one. Polaris Dawn plans to not only orbit Earth higher than any astronauts have in more than 50 years but to also feature ...

When pop star Katy Perry and five other women made a much-publicized trip to the edge of space earlier this year, they faced sharp criticism across both social and traditional media, with skeptics ...

In another SpaceX milestone, billionaire Jared Isaacman and company crew trainer Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside their Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday in the first privately-financed ...

Polaris Dawn will launch on Monday, and the private space mission will do some ambitious and risky things. In a time when we regularly see multiple commercial spacecraft docked at the ISS at the same ...

Astronaut Cady Coleman had to make do when NASA decided not to use small spacesuits on the International Space Station. The following is an excerpt from Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, ...