September 10, 2024, at 5:23 a.m. EDT

SpaceX's Falcon 9 launches the Polaris Dawn crew to orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

The crew Dragon "Resilience" spacecraft carried Mission Commander Jared Isaacman, Mission Pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Mission Specialist Sarah Gillis, and Mission Specialist and Medical Officer Anna Menon.

During their multi-day mission in orbit aboard the Dragon spacecraft, the crew reached 1,408.1 km—the highest Earth-orbit altitude, farther than any astronauts have flown since Apollo 17, performed the first-ever extravehicular activity (EVA) by private astronauts, utilizing new SpaceX EVA suits. The crew conducted 36 research studies and experiments.

Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew safely splashed down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico at 3:36 a.m. EDT on September 15, 2024, completing their nearly five-day record-setting commercial spaceflight.