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Initially planned to launch on Aug. 27, the Polaris Dawn mission faced weather and technical delays. The company skipped any launch attempts last week as days of storms would have prevented a safe splashdown for the Dragon on either Florida coast in the event of a launch abort.<\/em> KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. \u2013 SpaceX launched the Polaris Dawn mission, the first private spacewalking mission, after multiple delays due to Florida’s recent rainy weather pattern.<\/p>\n SpaceX said the Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying Mission Commander Jared Isaacman, Mission Pilot Scott Poteet and SpaceX employees Sara Gillis and Anna Menon was launched into low-Earth orbit at 5:23 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launchpad 39A.<\/p>\n Initially planned to launch on Aug. 27, the Polaris Dawn mission faced weather and technical delays. The company skipped any launch attempts last week as days of storms would have prevented a safe splashdown for the Dragon on either Florida coast in the event of a launch abort.<\/p>\n “The primary factor driving the launch timing for Polaris Dawn is the splashdown weather within Dragon’s limits. Unlike an ISS mission, we don\u2019t have the option to delay long on orbit, so we must ensure the forecast is as favorable as possible before we launch,” Isaacman recently wrote on X.<\/p>\n According to SpaceX, Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth and landed on the company’s droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nBy Emilee Speck, Aaron Barker<\/strong><\/p>\n