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SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies into an orbit never ...

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday ...

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.

It will carry a crew of four into a 90-degree orbit that will send them over both the North and South Poles. The Fram2 crew will attempt to grow oyster mushrooms in microgravity as part of an ...

"As we orbit around the North and South poles for three to five days, it's kind of that same blizzard experience," he told journalists during a Friday briefing on X. "We've got four people locked ...

Malta-based investor Chun Wang is financing the mission, which was dubbed Fram2 after a Norwegian ship that carried key expeditions to the North and South poles around the turn of the 20th century.