SpaceX made history on April 1 with its private Fram2 mission. For the first time ever, a crew orbited the Earth’s poles.

Trump aims to send a crew to Mars by the end of his term, which Musk calls 'doable.' Astronauts question the time frame but said a flight would soon be possible ...

In-situ resource utilization will likely play a major role in any future long-term settlement of the moon. However, designing such a system in advance with our current level of knowledge will prove ...

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.

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

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

SpaceX launched its next private human spaceflight mission, Fram2, from Florida on Monday evening. The mission, featuring a ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit ...

The latest private space mission has launched four astronauts into a sideways orbit that has never been attempted before with ...

[Photo/CNSA/Handout via Xinhua] China is making steady progress in its manned lunar exploration program ... a Lanyue lunar lander and a Mengzhou manned spacecraft to lunar orbit. After reaching their ...

Fram2 is set to launch as early as March 31, sending four first-time astronauts into an orbit never before visited by humans.

It also clocked in as the 25th orbital rocket ... new flight trajectory will unlock new possibilities for human spaceflight and provide a deeper understanding about our planet and its polar regions.