(Bloomberg) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch its first human space flight mission to fly over the polar regions of the Earth, funded and directed by cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang.
The mission is called FRAM2, and the Norwegian polar expedition ship, which was previously operated in the late 1800s and early 1900s, will be launched from the Falcon 9 rocket in Florida at 9:46 pm local time, carrying four private Astronauts crews.
Over the course of three to five days, they will fly over and observe the Earth’s Arctic and Antarctic and conduct research on the impact of space flight on human health.
“My own journey was shaped by lifelong curiosity and obsession with boundaries,” Wang said in a live mission overview on Friday. “As a kid, I used to stare at the blank space at the bottom of the world map and wonder what was there.”
Spacex vice president Jon Edwards said that during Soviet space missions, astronauts were flying during early flights with astronauts such as Yuri Gagarin.
Wang (Wang) was born in China but posted on social media about becoming a citizen of Malta in 2023, and he was one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools in 2013, F2Pool. Joining him will be Norwegian director and photographer Jannicke Mikkelsen, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Australian Adventurer Eric Philip and German graduate Rabea Rogge, who was originally All Actarreations of Allers astrare.
“I look forward to being the first person in history to point cameras to the North and South Poles from space,” Mickelson said.
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The mission adds SpaceX’s roster of more than a dozen human space flight missions, most of which are used for NASA. In addition to bringing astronauts to the International Space Station, the Musk-led company also performed two missions for billionaire Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s NASA administrator nomination.
After the mission, the crew will splash out of the West Coast of the United States.
“Each of these missions is a small step in making space flight more like flying easier air travel,” said Jessica Jensen, vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX.
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