[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] It was a very big deal on Sept. 14, 1966, when astronauts Pete Conrad and Dock Gordon flew their Gemini XI spacecraft to a never-before-attained altitude of 850 miles. It’s still a big deal 58 years later, since that record for a crewed spacecraft in Earth orbit remains. But that will change later this month, when the crewmembers of the Polaris Dawn mission—set for launch on Aug. 26—fire their thrusters and climb to a new benchmark of 870 miles, venturing farther from home than any astronauts on any non-lunar mission have ever traveled. The Polaris Dawn crew will notch other achievements too—becoming the first commercial astronauts to perform extr
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