The first four humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles have safely returned to Earth.

The mission, funded and commanded by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was launched by SpaceX on Monday and has grabbed headlines for its flight path ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above. For the first time ...

SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is set for liftoff on Monday at 9:46 p.m. ET, launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch a private crew of astronauts on board a Dragon ...

Fram2, the third private spaceflight purchased from SpaceX, is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 31st from Kennedy Space Center. The crew of four, led by cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang, ...

Four private astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Friday after roughly four days orbiting the planet in a ...

SpaceX chalked up another human spaceflight Monday night, taking four civilians on a trip around the Earth that has never ...

SpaceX brought back to Earth on Friday the four crew members of the private polar Fram2 mission that launched from Kennedy ...

In a discussion with NSF, the crew of Fram2 provided insight into their groundbreaking mission and what it’s like to view Earth from polar orbit. On March 31, 2025, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off ...

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The Fram2 mission is named after the Fram ship that was the first to reach Earth’s polar regions in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The quartet became the first humans to ever orbit the planet’s polar ...