SpaceX Launches 1st Crewed Flight Over Earth’s Poles
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Chun Wang, a Chinese-born citizen of Malta who lives mostly in the extreme north of Norway, paid SpaceX an undisclosed amount to charter the Crew Dragon "Resilience" for a trip in polar orbit.
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SpaceX is set to launch its latest mission for paying customers — taking a cryptocurrency billionaire and three guests on a dayslong trip that will orbit directly above Earth’s North and South poles ...
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SpaceX plans to launch 27 Starlink satellites from its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday afternoon, April 1 which can be seen above Southern California.
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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 four-person crew, led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, will spend three to five days on a rare flight path around Earth’s poles.
Plenty more launches are to come, including another test of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, which exploded while in flight in March. Blue Origin is also set to send Katy Perry into space aboard its New Shepard as part of an all-woman mission on April 14th.
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The Daily Galaxy on MSNNASA Adds SpaceX’s Starship to Official Launch RosterNASA has officially added SpaceX’s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, to its lineup of approved launch vehicles—a move that could reshape how the agency tackles deep space missions for years to come.
SpaceX is looking to launch just under an hour from now. If weather is still an issue, the launch will be attempted tomorrow after
Mikkelsen, the first Norwegian bound for space, has flown over the poles before, but at a much lower altitude. She was part of the 2019 record-breaking mission that circumnavigated the world via the poles in a Gulfstream jet to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s moon landing.
This was the first of two explosions for SpaceX. Plans to bring the massive rocket to Florida are moving forward.