SpaceX Dragon Soars To New Heights

Irene Klotz September 11, 2024
Credit: SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL—The privately funded Polaris Dawn mission underway aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft reached an 870.4-mi.-high orbit on Sept. 10, breaking a 1966 record for the most distant Earth-orbiting crewed spacecraft. Surpassing the 853-mi.-high Gemini 11 apogee record was a personal goal...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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