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 ...

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 ...

The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday that he expects to welcome rescued US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the Oval Office when they “get better” following their long ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ... reached up to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit. A SpaceX recovery ship is tasked with bringing the capsule on board. The crew will catch a helicopter ...

A Crew Dragon spacecraft returned four people from the International Space Station March 18, including two NASA astronauts whose ... near the SpaceX recovery ship, which had the capsule on board ...

They were accompanied by the other members of NASA’s Crew-9 Mission, American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. After a recovery ship pulled the capsule from the ...

After a two-day delay, the Crew-10 mission launched Friday night from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelling the astronauts into orbit aboard a Dragon capsule.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began ...