SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn astronauts to attempt world’s 1st-ever private spacewalk (video)

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SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn astronauts to attempt world’s 1st-ever private spacewalk (video)


The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched early this morning (Sept. 10), with the goal of making some spaceflight history.

Polaris Dawn, which aims to conduct the first-ever private spacewalk, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today at 5:23 a.m. EDT (0923 GMT) from historic Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Pad 39A also hosted most of NASA’s Apollo moon launches, which were the last crewed missions to fly as far as the Polaris Dawn astronauts will travel.

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