Jared Isaacman Scott Poteet Sarah Gillis Anna Menon
Start of mission
Launch date
NET 12 July 2024, 05:30 UTC (planned)
Rocket
Falcon 9 Block 5 (B1083.4)
Launch site
CCSFS, SLC-40
Contractor
SpaceX
Orbital parameters
Periapsis altitude
190 km (120 mi)
Apoapsis altitude
1,400 km (870 mi) (initially) 750 km (470 mi) (later)[1]
Inclination
51.6°
Mission Patch Isaacman, Poteet, Gillis, and Menon
Crew Dragon flights
← SpaceX Crew-8
SpaceX Crew-9 →
Polaris Dawn is a planned private human spaceflight mission, operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman,[2][3] The flight will be using a Crew Dragon capsule, and is the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program.[4] It is scheduled to launch no earlier than July 12, 2024.
^"Scott Poteet Discusses Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn Missions (Part 2)". May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
^Clark, Stephen (14 February 2022). "Billionaire plans three more flights with SpaceX, culminating in Starship mission". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
^"Jared Isaacman, who led the first all-private astronaut mission to orbit, has commissioned 3 more flights from SpaceX". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
^Sheetz, Michael (2022-02-14). "Billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman buys more private SpaceX flights, including one on Starship". CNBC. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
three planned missions in the Polaris program. It is scheduled to launch no earlier than July 12, 2024. The PolarisDawn program was announced by Jared...
flight. PolarisDawn, the first flight, will attempt the first private spacewalk. NASA and SpaceX signed in September 2022 with the Polaris program an...
Isaacman will command the PolarisDawn mission, the first private spaceflight in a series of missions named the Polaris Program. Isaacman is currently...
Anna Menon is an American engineer scheduled to fly on PolarisDawn, a private space mission. Menon worked for NASA for seven years before joining SpaceX...
Sarah Gillis is an American engineer who is scheduled to fly on PolarisDawn, a private space mission. Gillis graduated from Shining Mountain Waldorf School...
American pilot retired from the United States Air Force scheduled to fly on PolarisDawn, a private space mission. He earned a bachelor's degree in Outdoor education...
SpaceX Crew-8 Mission". 5 August 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023. "PolarisDawn". Polaris Program. Retrieved 14 February 2022. "Jared Isaacman, who led the...
September 2021. "Dawn". Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2024. Foust, Jeff (11 December 2023). "PolarisDawn rescheduled for...
Polaris Program: The commander and financier of the Inspiration4 mission, Jared Isaacman, announced plans for a three-mission program called Polaris in...
mission. Ferries four members of the Polaris Program up to an apogee of 1,400 km (870 mi; 760 nmi). PolarisDawn will conduct research on the effects...
extravehicular activity, planned to be used for a spacewalk during the PolarisDawn mission. SpaceX routinely returns the first stage of Falcon 9 and Falcon...
space tourism launches with the successful NS-25 mission on 19 May. PolarisDawn, featuring the first commercial spacewalk, is planned to launch in July...
Global Information
