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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...
U.S. News & World Report |
Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Scientific American |
Fram2 will also break ground with several of its 22 science experiments. For example, the mission will attempt to grow mushrooms and take X-rays of the human body in orbit for the first time.
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Just a few hours after the historic Fram2 mission launch on Tuesday, SpaceX has shared the first views of Earth's polar region. The video captured from the Dragon spacecraft features the south pole as the astronauts flew over it after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Fram2 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on a Falcon9 rocket carrying four private citizens. The mission will be the first to orbit directly over Earth’s North and South poles.
SpaceX will livestream the Fram2 mission, which will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, March 31. Liftoff is currently targeted for 9:46 p.m. ET, though the livestream will ...