UPDATED 6:07 AM ET Sep. 10, 2024 PUBLISHED 1:31 PM ET Aug. 20, 2024 PUBLISHED 1:31 PM EDT Aug. 20, 2024 SHARE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As space fans roared with excitement, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched the historic Polaris Dawn mission early Tuesday morning. The all-civilian mission will see a series of space firsts, including a commercial spacewalk and achieving the highest orbit around Earth. What You Need To Know This is the first of three Polaris Dawn missions from the Polaris Program The Polaris Dawn mission is a joint operation with SpaceX The Falcon 9 left from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center 🔻Scroll down to follow Polaris Dawn's journey🔻 — 🚀Anthony Leone🌕 (@AnthonyLeone) September 10, 2024 The mission will also see the furthest planned orbit, with the crew hoping to reach 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above the planet and breaking the record made by the Gemini 11 mission in 1966, which achieved an altitude of 853 miles (1,373 kilometers) above the Earth. In fact, it will be the further a Dragon capsule has gone into space. Menon and Gillis will be the first women in history to reach a high-altitude orbit. They are also lead space operations engineers at SpaceX. Besides Isaacman, the three members have never been to space before. Crewmembers (from left) Jared Isaacman, Anna Menon, Scott "Kidd" Poteet and Sarah Gillis said on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, that they will make a series of firsts during their Polaris Dawn mission, like making the first-commercial spacewalk and going on the furthest planned orbit. (Spectrum News/Anthony Leone) Each day will see something different, from day one where the crew will prepare for the spacewalk and attempt to break the high orbit record, which will see them pass through the Van Allen radiation belt. Day two will be more prep work for the spacewalk and a book reading to the kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The Polaris Dawn mission, like Inspiration4, will raise funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Day three will be a livestream of the spacewalk as Day 4 will be another mission objective: Testing the Starlink laser communications system. This Dragon capsule had a special device installed in it to be able to communicate with Starlink satellites. Day five will see the crew prepare for what comes on the sixth day, when the four will be splashing down off Florida’s coast. On Monday, Aug. 19, the crew of the Polaris Dawn mission gave a press conference about the mission and went into detail, such as the medical experiments that they will be conducting.