A crew of four private astronauts made history in the early hours of Thursday morning when they opened the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule and conducted the first commercial spacewalk. The spacewalk, the riskiest part of the five-day Polaris Dawn mission, began at 6:12 a.m. ET as oxygen began flowing into the astronauts’ spacesuits. […]
A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens launched early Tuesday on a five-day mission that will include the first spacewalk by an all-civilian crew. The mission, named Polaris Dawn, launched at 5:24 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The flight is designed to take the four crew members […]
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA said a “spacesuit discomfort issue” forced the cancellation of a spacewalk planned for two U.S. astronauts outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, about an hour before their repair mission was scheduled to begin. NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matt Dominick, two of the orbiting laboratory’s […]
