Polaris Dawn will launch on Monday, and the private space mission will do some ambitious and risky things.

In a time when we regularly see multiple commercial spacecraft docked at the ISS at the same time, it can be a little tough for any particular private space mission to stand out — but Polaris Dawn, a collaboration between SpaceX and Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman, will be one to watch.

The mission is scheduled to launch Monday, August 26 from Kennedy Space Center, sending four astronauts in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule (like the one the stranded Starliner crew will ride home in) on a long, narrow orbit that will carry them through the innermost of the Van Allen belts — bands of high-energy radiation that surround our planet — making them the first people to cross the belts in 52 years. Midway through the 5-day mission, two crew members will leave the capsule for the first spacewalk by private astronauts.

Those plans might look like more space billionaire stunts — this is also the age of space tourism, after all — but Isaacman (who will fly on Polaris Dawn as the mission’s commander) insists the Polaris program has real science and technology development goals.

I log onto World of Warcraft to see a graying Thrall, our hero Anduin all grown up and disillusioned by the past, and a haunting villainess dancing in the shadows. Twenty years after its launch, Activision Blizzard’s massive role-playing game has spawned real-life babies and companies named after Anduin, brought together lovers, and made life-long friends. Now in its late game, celebrating its age as a proven live service, WoW is trying to retain lapsed gamers, though it won’t say how many have left or who still plays.

“We don't want to be known as the 20-year-old game,” Holly Longdale, World of Warcraft’s executive producer and vice president, tells Inverse. “We want to be known as the game of today, the game you want to play.”

“The War Within” launches on Aug. 26, and the studio says it’s taking note of the direction the industry is shifting, and what players are asking for. And so, WoW’s 10th expansion will add new features, new zones, and one new race. And that’s just the beginning.

“The next expansion is already well underway with development, and so is the one after that. The team has never worked this far ahead before,” Longdale says. “Blizzard’s not known for doing things quickly. So they’ve been firing on all cylinders. It’s been great.”