SpaceX Launches Polaris Dawn Mission To Attempt First-ever Private Spacewalk

Carrying billionaire entrepreneur and mission commander Jared Isaacman, SpaceX mission specialists Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, and mission pilot retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Scott "Kidd" Poteet, a SpaceX Crew Dragon lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket today(Sept. 10) at 0923 UTC, from historic Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The Polaris Dawn mission aims to conduct the first-ever private spacewalk, and a wide range of technical and scientific tests and experiment, at an orbit 1,400 km from the earth -- higher than any human has flown since the final Apollo mission in 1972.