Four private astronauts lifted off from Florida on Monday on the Fram2 mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole.

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 is gearing up to launch Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, on Monday night from the Kennedy Space ...

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The mission follows Rocket Lab’s first launch for the company in December 2023, when Electron deployed another QPS-SAR satellite as part of iQPS’ newly established radar imaging constellation.

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