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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 5:23 a.m. EDT from launch complex 39A carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a private human spaceflight mission Polaris Dawn at NASAs Kennedy Space Center on September 10, 2024, in Merritt Island, Florida. ..Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman commands and finances the mission. The four-member crew will spend five days in orbit aboard the Dragon spacecraft to reach the highest Earth-orbit altitude, and they will participate in the first-ever spacewalk by private astronauts.