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

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

Fram2 will send four people from four different nations to low Earth orbit for three to five days. Those crewmembers — all of them spaceflight rookies — are mission commander Chun Wang of Malta, ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the launch of the record-breaking Fram2 crew. The SpaceX rocket lifted ...

That’s because a Falcon 9 carrying 28 Starlink satellites lifted off at 3:52 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s ...

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Fram2 watched a SpaceX rocket launch on the way to their launch ...

Fram2 astronauts were busy over the weekend with preparations for their upcoming SpaceX launch for their mission to orbit ...

propelling the Fram2 crew members into orbit before their Dragon capsule separated to use its own thrusters to continue onward, according to SpaceX. The launch occurred right on schedule at 9:46 ...

Monday's Fram2 launch marks SpaceX's third privately funded civilian space tourism flight. Mikkelsen is a cinematographer, Rogge is a robotics expert and Phillips calls himself an adventurer.

The Fram2 astronauts launched on a mission like no other Monday night. For three to five days, the crew of four will orbit Earth's polar regions.

Fram2's astronauts were busy over the weekend with preparations for their upcoming SpaceX launch for their mission to orbit Earth’s north and south poles. SpaceX said Sunday in an X post that ...