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https://spacenews.com/polaris-dawn-mission-likely-to-slip-to-2024/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/13/manifest-space-with-morgan-brennan.html

> “We’re making a lot of progress. We’re still hoping for the end of the year, but I suspect it will probably slip into the beginning of next year,” he said in the brief interview. “This should be expected. It’s a test and development program.”

> When Isaacman and SpaceX announced Polaris in February 2022, they scheduled the Polaris Dawn mission for as soon as the fourth quarter of 2022. However, by last October the launch slipped to at least March 2023, which the program attributed to readiness of the vehicle and training as well as the schedule of other Crew Dragon missions.

> Isaacman said on the podcast that the ball was in NASA’s court about a Crew Dragon mission to Hubble. “There are obviously a lot of important things that being discussed right now at NASA, but hopefully they will get around to this proposal and perhaps we’ll have a pretty exciting Polaris 2 to follow,” he said.