{"id":187419,"date":"2024-04-15T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/polaris-dawn-is-getting-closer-and-closer-to-being-launch-ready"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:22:22","slug":"polaris-dawn-is-getting-closer-and-closer-to-being-launch-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/polaris-dawn-is-getting-closer-and-closer-to-being-launch-ready","title":{"rendered":"Polaris Dawn is getting closer and closer to being launch ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/polaris-dawn-is-getting-closer-and-closer-to-being-launch-ready3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things are slowly falling into place for the <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/guides\/polaris-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polaris Program<\/a>\u2019s first mission, <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/guides\/polaris-dawn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polaris Dawn<\/a>. The mission is nearing milestones that might finally give it a launch date that will actually hold.<\/p>\n<p>Polaris Dawn, a private mission being paid for by Shift4 CEO Jared Issacman, who also paid for and flew on <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/guides\/inspiration4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inspiration4<\/a> in 2021. The goal of the mission is to fly higher than any human spaceflight since Apollo, perform the first private spacewalk, and conduct numerous science experiments in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Like Inspiration4, Polaris is partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/guides\/spacex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> to complete this. Currently, SpaceX is the only company capable of this sort of feat. To do so, the company has modified its <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/guides\/crew-dragon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dragon spacecraft<\/a> to support spacewalk operations and develop an upgraded spacesuit to be used in the vacuum of space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are slowly falling into place for the Polaris Program\u2019s first mission, Polaris Dawn. The mission is nearing milestones that might finally give it a launch date that will actually hold. Polaris Dawn, a private mission being paid for by Shift4 CEO Jared Issacman, who also paid for and flew on Inspiration4 in 2021. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}