Polaris Dawn crew
The Polaris Dawn crew of (from left) Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, speak at the EAA AirVenture air show July 29.

The privately funded Polaris Program is planning its first crewed launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in December, a mission that will include the first spacewalk on a private mission.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...