The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel from the North to South Pole under an hour.

Fram2 will send four people from four different nations to low Earth orbit for three to five days. Those crewmembers — all of them spaceflight rookies — are mission commander Chun Wang of Malta, ...

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

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

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four international astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after ... Earth from a polar orbit as they fly from pole to pole.

Tonight, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a first-of-its-kind mission that will carry four private astronauts — or depending on how you see it, glorified space tourists — to fly above the Earth's ...

This long-exposure view shows the Earth and stars as intense streaks over time as seen from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Don Pettit. | Credit: NASA/Don Pettit and Babak ...

If that timeline isn't met, there are three additional opportunities available over the next roughly 4.5 hours, at 11:20 p.m. ET ... astronauts of SpaceX's Fram2 mission, the 1st to fly over Earth ...