SpaceX is gearing up for a historic mission, set to launch the first human spaceflight over Earth's polar regions.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the Fram2 mission is targeted for Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is ...

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

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The Fram2 crew will be the first people to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit, and they'll work on experiments ...

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Fram2 is set to launch as early as March 31, sending four first-time astronauts into an orbit never before visited by humans.