{"id":196023,"date":"2024-09-11T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/video-shows-a-spacex-rocket-launch-4-member-crew-for-daring-polaris-dawn-mission"},"modified":"2024-09-11T11:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:22:59","slug":"video-shows-a-spacex-rocket-launch-4-member-crew-for-daring-polaris-dawn-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/video-shows-a-spacex-rocket-launch-4-member-crew-for-daring-polaris-dawn-mission","title":{"rendered":"Video shows a SpaceX rocket launch 4-member crew for daring Polaris Dawn mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Polaris Dawn crew were finally able to embark<\/a> early Tuesday on the thrice-delayed spaceflight<\/a>, where by Thursday they should attempt to become the first nongovernment astronauts to conduct a spacewalk. In the predawn hours, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman<\/a> and his crew boarded a SpaceX Dragon capsule perched atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off at 5:23 a.m. EDT from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n

Ahead for the private astronauts \u2013 who spent three weeks in quarantine<\/a> awaiting the launch \u2013 are five days in orbit testing out SpaceX technology that could be crucial for future deep-space exploration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you missed the launch, here\u2019s how to rewatch<\/a> SpaceX\u2019s Polaris Dawn mission get underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Polaris Dawn crew were finally able to embark early Tuesday on the thrice-delayed spaceflight, where by Thursday they should attempt to become the first nongovernment astronauts to conduct a spacewalk. In the predawn hours, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his crew boarded a SpaceX Dragon capsule perched atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted [\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-196023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196023","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=196023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}