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It is not a sound often heard in Earth orbit, but in the newly released footage of snack and space history being made, it is clearly there. *Crunch* Doritos is releasing its first ad filmed in space.

Four private astronauts are back on Earth after a five-day mission that set firsts and broke records in an effort to advance human spaceflight.

Two private astronauts conducting the first commercial spacewalk did not so much float out of their spacecraft as they did "stand up."

Two Polaris Dawn astronauts completed the world's first all-private spacewalk in their new SpaceX extravehicular activity suits, on Day 3 of the groundbreaking mission.

After more than two years of training for the landmark mission, four citizens including billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman were launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on Tuesday. If all goes as planned, it will be the first time non-professional astronauts conduct a spacewalk.

SpaceX launched the four-person Polaris Dawn mission to orbit on Tuesday (Sept. 10) to carry out the first spacewalk ever performed by private astronauts.

A billionaire has rocketed back to space, aiming to perform the first private spacewalk

Weather conditions at the mission's landing zones have postponed the Polaris Dawn launch, and also the FAA grounded the Falcon 9, so the crew might be waiting a minute.

SpaceX scrubbed the planned Aug. 28 launch of the Polaris Dawn astronaut mission due to bad weather. The mission now won't fly until Friday (Aug. 30) at the earliest.