For this all-citizen and private polar launch, it will be the first time that the quartet will be in space, and it will be the first time any human has done a 90-degree circularized orbit ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight around Earth’s polar regions, as the commander shares with Spectrum News what this new adventure means to him.

Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour. Bitcoin investor Chun Wang chartered a ...

Estimates show that there are between 22,000 and 31,000 polar bears left in the world, which does not include the 300 or so polar bears in captivity. However, a Reuters article indicates that polar ...

If I hadn’t set free Tyler, the polar bear zero-gravity indicator, I might not have realized we were already weightless.” During the nearly four-day mission, Wang, Mikkelsen, Rogge ...

A SpaceX capsule carrying four private astronauts who orbited the north and south poles landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California on Friday. It was the first human ...

All four Fram2 crew members have ties to polar exploration. Fram2 is “an untraditional mission,” Mikkelsen said at a March 28 discussion on X. “We’re not your typical NASA astronauts.

NANCY IF YOU REMEMBER, FROM FRAM TWO, AS THEY WERE ORBITING THE POLES, WHICH IS A FIRST FOR ANY ASTRONAUT WHO’S BEEN UP IN SPACE TO GO INTO THAT POLAR ORBIT. SO VERY EXCITED TO HEAR WHAT THESE ...

(SpaceX via AP) This photo provided by SpaceX shows the domed window of the Dragon capsule with a polar region of the Earth in the background on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (SpaceX via AP) In this image ...

Fram2 is the first astronaut mission to orbit over both poles. SpaceX launched the private mission on March 31. Crew is conducting space-based medical and biological research.

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.