A crew of four international spacefarers on a private mission will soon seek to become the first humans to travel over Earth's poles.

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

The Fram2 crew launched to polar orbit, flying straight south, Monday night. Lift off was 9:46 p.m. from KSC Pad 39A, Florida ...

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

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent up the IM-2 mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A ... at nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters) at a time. The regolith, or lunar rock and soil ...