SpaceX announced on social media Saturday that the Polaris Dawn crew successfully traveled farther from Earth since the Apollo program. (Credit: X/ SpaceX) Florida Republicans are thrilled about ...

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew reached an apogee of 1,400.7 km (870.3mi). That is farther than any human has traveled since the Apollo missions. Credit: Space.com | footage: SpaceX | edited by Steve ...

Though it's true each of SpaceX's astronaut launches to date has flown out of LC-39A, it's particularly fitting that the members of Polaris Dawn will also launch from there, as this mission will ...

The mission is not stopping there. The next record the Polaris Dawn crew hopes to break: the first spacewalk by private astronauts. That spacewalk is set to begin at 2:23 a.m. Thursday morning.

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission lifted off from Merritt Island, Florida, in a Falcon 9 rocket from the NASA Kennedy Space Center at 5:23 a.m. and it was visible in southeastern Pennsylvania a ...

The mission is not stopping there. The next record the Polaris Dawn crew hopes to break: the first spacewalk by private astronauts. That spacewalk is set to begin at 2:23 a.m. Thursday morning.

Touching the altitude of 870 miles was one of the key objectives of the Polaris Dawn mission. It is the furthest humans have traveled in space since the completion of NASA’s Apollo program in 1972.