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SpaceX is now targeting Aug. 26 for the launch of Polaris Dawn, a crewed flight to Earth orbit that will feature the first-ever private spacewalk.
The news, which the Polaris Dawn team announced today (Aug. 7) via a post on X , firms up a previously vague window; the most recent target for the groundbreaking mission was mid-August .
Polaris Dawn will send four people to Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, which will lift off from NASA 's Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
Those four crewmembers are billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who will command the mission; pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel; and mission specialists Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, both of whom are SpaceX engineers.
Related: How SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn astronauts will attempt the 1st-ever 'all-civilian' spacewalk
Polaris Dawn was originally scheduled to launch in 2022. The target date has been pushed back multiple times , due in part to the ambitious mission's pioneering complexity.
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