SpaceX launched the Fram2 mission, carrying four astronauts, into a polar orbit around Earth, a first in human spaceflight history. The Fram2 crew, all experienced explorers of extreme environments on ...

Named after a Norwegian ship that explored the Arctic and Antarctic regions at the turn of the 20th century, Fram2 will ...

putting the four astronauts on a path to travel directly over Earth’s poles. The unusual trajectory was chosen to honor the group’s interest in polar exploration. All four crew members are traveling ...

The Fram2 crew will be the first people to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit, and they'll work on experiments and projects designed to forward our understanding of long-duration ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

But from 260 miles above in space, he saw no trace of humanity — just desolation: a seemingly endless view of pure white ice.

A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

A blockchain entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a polar adventurer and a robotics researcher plan to fly around Earth’s poles ...

The mission, funded and commanded by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was launched by SpaceX on Monday and has grabbed ...

The crew of four astronauts flew in a polar orbit for nearly four days to explore the Earth’s polar regions for the first time.The SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the Fram2 crew of four splashed ...

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