The Polaris Dawn mission is a fully private spaceflight, commissioned and funded by a billionaire. Godspeed Polaris Dawn crew, may you make history and return safely." High radiation and the first commercial spacewalkOnce they settle into orbit, the Polaris Dawn crew has a five-day agenda packed with experiments and a bold spacewalk plan. AdvertisementA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the crew of the Polaris Dawn Mission, entered space on Tuesday. So the Polaris Dawn crew plans to fly through a belt of intense radiation and monitor their hearts, airways, and eyes along the way.

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Persons: —, it's, Elon Musk's, Anna Menon, Sarah Gillis, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman, SpaceX Menon, Gillis, Poteet, Isaacman, Frank Messina, SpaceX's, CHANDAN KHANNA, John Kraus, Polaris Dawn, Abhi Tripathi, they're, Tripathi, Starship's, Isaacman haven't Organizations: Service, Polaris, Business, SpaceX, US Air Force, Mission, Polaris Dawn, Apollo, Polaris Program, UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, of Liberty Locations: Mars, Cape Canaveral , Florida, Texas