A crew of four international spacefarers on a private mission will soon seek to become the first humans to travel over Earth's poles.

The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...

Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch ...

(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight mission to fly over the Earth’s polar regions, funded and commanded by cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang.

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained ...

This mission will be exceptional because, for the first time in history, humans will observe both poles of Earth from orbit.

In contrast, the Fram2 mission's 90-degree inclination means it will pass directly over both the North and South Poles. This ...

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 ...

Trump isn’t the first American to show an infatuation with Greenland. A University of Michigan researcher focused his studies on the frigid land, leading multiple expeditions across the Arctic ...

A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.

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