The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

mission specialist and medical officer, were in SpaceX’s Dragon capsule as the company’s Falcon 9 rocket took them to the first-ever polar orbit by humans. The 4.5-hour launch window opened at ...

SpaceX kicked off 2025 by continuing its record-breaking pace of Falcon 9 launches while also setting new firsts with its ...

Few details were publicly released about the classified SpaceX NROL-69 mission, which lifted off at 1:48 p.m. EDT Monday from ...

The first four humans to orbit Earth’s poles are sharing their experiences from their historic mission. In a discussion with ...

For Fram2, SpaceX also recycled the Dragon cupola, which had debuted on SpaceX’s first private astronaut mission, Inspiration 4, also chartered by Isaacman. The Fram2 astronauts did not open ...

SpaceX has launched at a rate nearly 34 times higher than United Launch Alliance since the start of 2023, but ULA has more ...

The international four-person crew returns after nearly four days in space and observing Earth’s poles from orbit for the ...

(Photo from SpaceX video) Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday morning, splashing down off Oceanside to end their privately funded polar tour ... X ...

The first four humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles have safely returned to Earth.

During the nearly four-day mission, Wang, Mikkelsen ... Their core objective was to fly a 90-degree polar orbit, comfortably the highest inclination ever reached by a crewed spacecraft, to ...