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 off at 5:23 a.m. EDT from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Ahead for the private astronauts – who spent three weeks in quarantine awaiting the launch – are five days in orbit testing out SpaceX technology that could be crucial for future deep-space exploration.
If you missed the launch, here’s how to rewatch SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission get underway.
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