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This was followed by the opening of the main parachutes minutes later as the spacecraft carrying the Polaris Dawn crew slowed its decent towards the water early Sunday. Cheers erupted from the ...

Days after returning to Earth, the four civilian crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission opened up about their experience seeing the planet from orbit, floating in weightlessness and conducting ...

At 3:36 a.m. ET on Sunday, the Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew safely landed near the coast of the Dry Tortugas in Florida, according to SpaceX. When the Dragon spacecraft launched Tuesday atop ...

"We actually had a pretty neat view of Polaris Dawn entering," astronaut Mike Barratt radioed flight controllers in Houston. "All of us were more or less crowded in the (multi-window) cupola ...

By Yan Zhuang After conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk and traveling farther from Earth than anyone in more than half a century, the astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission returned to ...

Elon Musk's incredible gift to Chechen leader Kadyrov: a Tesla with a machine gun SpaceX's 'Polaris Dawn' mission was successfully completed on Sunday in the waters off the coast of Florida ...

Polaris Dawn was the first of three missions of the Polaris Program. Polaris Dawn was the gate-opener mission to the larger Polaris Program, a set of at least three anticipated missions bankrolled ...

Named "Polaris Dawn," the mission flew to an altitude of 1,408.1 km on the first day of the flight. This was the highest Earth-orbit mission ever flown, and the farthest humans have traveled from ...

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A Mercer County mosquito group has tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV), according to the county’s conservation district ...

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth after five days in orbit, following a historic mission featuring the world's first commercial spacewalk. The Dragon capsule made splashdown off the ...