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“The simple answer is energetics,” Jeffrey Hughes, a space physics professor at Boston University, told Gizmodo. “It takes a lot more energy to put something in polar orbit compared to equatorial orb...
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Fram2 will send four people from four different nations to low Earth orbit for three to five days.
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SpaceX's private Fram2 launch over Earth's poles will send astronauts where no one has gone beforeIn contrast, the Fram2 mission's 90-degree inclination means it will pass directly over both the North and South Poles. This path provides comprehensive coverage of Earth's surface, enabling observations of regions and phenomena not accessible to other missions.
A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path never flown before.
Named after a Norwegian ship that explored the Arctic and Antarctic regions at the turn of the 20th century, Fram2 will follow a long tradition of privately funded polar expeditions. This one, however, is the first of the lot to go to space.
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SpaceX's Fram2 astronaut flight over Earth's poles will be the 1st to grow mushrooms in spaceSpaceX's upcoming Fram2 astronaut mission will attempt to grow mushrooms in microgravity for the first time, as part of an experiment called Mission MushVroom.
A four-person crew is about to take off from SpaceX's NASA Kennedy Center in a Dragon capsule, in a world first to orbit Earth's two poles.
A privately funded crew will launch on a SpaceX rocket next week on a mission to orbit Earth's poles - something that has never been done.
A crew of four civilian astronauts led by billionaire Chun Wang is set to launch on a SpaceX capsule that will fly them over Earth's poles.
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