Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

It’s still a big deal 58 years later, since that record for a crewed spacecraft in Earth orbit remains. But that will change later this month, when the crewmembers of the Polaris Dawn mission ...

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 University of New Hampshire has announced that astronaut Scott Poteet will deliver this year's commencement address.

The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company last sent a crew of non-professional astronauts to orbit in September 2024 in the Polaris Dawn mission, which involved the first-ever spacewalk taken by a non ...

At more than 870 miles above Earth, this was no ordinary violin recital.On Sept. 13, 2024, Sarah Gillis (AeroEngr’17) played ...

Jared Isaacman, second from right, with the Polaris Dawn mission astronauts Anna Menon, Scott Poteet and Sarah Gillis at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, before their space ...