Who's up for a historic late-night launch? Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a spacecraft carrying the first people to orbit the earth's poles Monday.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's space center in Florida on Monday, carrying private astronauts on the Fram-9 mission for the first orbit around Earth's poles. The rocket launched on Monday from Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral as planned and,

SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions – a days-long orbital mission involving four astronauts.