Fram2, SpaceX and Earth
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The first few hours in microgravity weren’t exactly comfortable. Space motion sickness hit all of us—we felt nauseous and ended up vomiting a couple of times.
From Space.com
A SpaceX rocket blasted off Monday night from Florida, the first trip to put humans into an orbit that takes them over both of Earth’s poles.
From The New York Times
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Fram2 will send four people from four different nations to low Earth orbit for three to five days. Those crewmembers — all of them spaceflight rookies — are mission commander Chun Wang of Malta, vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway, pilot Rabea Rogge of Germany, and Australian Eric Phillips, Fram2's medical officer and mission specialist.
The four-person crew, led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, will spend three to five days on a rare flight path around Earth’s poles.
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before.
The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained astronaut on board.
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Interesting Engineering on MSNHumans orbit Earth over north, south poles for first time with SpaceX Fram2 missionSpaceX made history on April 1 with its private Fram2 mission. For the first time ever, a crew orbited the Earth’s poles. Until that point, no humans had ever flown above the poles in a spacecraft. The Fram2 crew – Chun Wang,
SpaceX had two rockets at two pads on the Space Coast on Monday. After a successful first launch of the day, it’s down to one.
The Fram2 astronauts launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on a stormy Monday night. Here's what we know about this mysterious mission of firsts.
SpaceX launched the Fram2 with four people aboard over the Earths’ poles on Monday night, marking the first time humans have ever flown such a mission.
Fram2 astronauts were busy over the weekend with preparations for their upcoming SpaceX launch for their mission to orbit Earth’s north and south poles.