SpaceX launches private Fram2 astronauts on historic spaceflight over Earth's poles

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April 1, 2025, 2:10 AM

• •SpaceX has launched the first-ever human spaceflight to circle Earth over its poles.
• •The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (March 31).
• •The crew will spend the next three to five days circling above the planet's most remote locations, to see the poles like no other human ever has.

SpaceX just launched the first-ever human spaceflight to circle Earth over its poles. The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (March 31) at 9:46 p.m. EDT (0146 GMT on April 1), sending the Crew Dragon capsule "Resilience" into a polar orbit with a quartet of spaceflight rookies aboard.

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