The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier never before explored by astronauts.

Here's a rundown of the science experiments that SpaceX's Fram2 astronaut mission will conduct while orbiting Earth's poles.

The first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, was sent ... which went into orbit this morning, will circle the earth “for a great many years—certainly five or 10 years.” In its orbit around the ...

Helping to launch the Fram2 mission will be SpaceX’s first-stage booster, named B1085. Not only has it launched a crew missioned, but it also sent up the Blue Ghost mission, the first fully successful lunar mission by a private space company.

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

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday was set to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before.