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 ...

SpaceX has flown satellites into polar orbit from Florida before, using a dogleg maneuver that required SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to fly eastward over the Atlantic Ocean before veering sharply to the ...

After splashdown, the crew will attempt to exit the vehicle without assistance to assess their physical capabilities.

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

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

The first human SpaceX flight to orbit over Earth's north and south poles splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of ...

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

The Fram2 mission headed by a Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur and three of his friends is targeting Monday, March 31 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday was set to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to ... German robotics ...

were in SpaceX’s Dragon capsule as the company’s Falcon 9 rocket took them to the first-ever polar orbit by humans. The 4.5-hour launch window opened at 9:46 p.m. ET and it took off from ...

The success of the Fram2 mission underscores the growing role of private enterprises in space exploration. By demonstrating ...

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 ...