Down right here on Earth, tech billionaire and DOGE head Elon Musk has to bear the brunt of Liberal-Globalist hatred for his help for Donald J. Trump and his willingness to wade within the DC ‘swamp’ to chop waste and corruption.
However up there in area, Musk retains making historical past.
This time, SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft is crewed by a privately-funded mission that, for the primary time, has astronauts orbiting planet earth over the poles, somewhat than across the equatorial areas.
Liftoff of Fram2 and the @framonauts! pic.twitter.com/XBL5juCnHQ
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 1, 2025
FoxWeather.com reported:
“SpaceX is sharing the primary have a look at the huge expanse of ice layering Earth’s poles after launching the non-public Fram2 mission, the primary human spaceflight to polar orbit.
A shocking video taken from SpaceX’s Dragon capsule by the ‘Framonauts’ exhibits their view from the spacecraft orbiting Earth at a 90-degree inclination over the north and south poles. The non-public mission, led by Mission Commander Chun Wang, of Malta, is known as after the unique Fram ship that first reached the Earth’s polar areas within the 1800s. Fram additionally means ‘ahead’ in Norwegian.
[…] Whereas Fram2 is among the many practically 630 missions to orbit Earth, it’s the primary to take the journey this manner, orbiting from pole to pole versus missions that orbit close to the equator. Even astronauts on the Worldwide Area Station haven’t seen the views the ‘Framonauts’ are experiencing. This orbit required a novel southern launch trajectory flying over Florida and Cuba.”
Watch: Dragon has separated from rocket Falcon 9’s second stage.
Dragon has separated from Falcon 9’s second stage pic.twitter.com/v6tv0PWZMa
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 1, 2025
Associated Press reported:
“A bitcoin investor who purchased a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night time on the primary rocket experience to hold folks over the North and South poles.
Chun Wang, a Chinese language-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket steered southward over the Atlantic, placing the area vacationers on a path by no means flown earlier than in 64 years of human spaceflight.”
The primary astronauts to orbit the poles
https://t.co/9vvmmMAgsV— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2025
“A polar orbit is good for local weather and Earth-mapping satellites in addition to spy satellites. That’s as a result of a spacecraft can observe the complete world every day, circling Earth from pole to pole because it rotates under.
[…] Wang pitched the thought of a polar flight to SpaceX in 2023, two years after U.S. tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman made the primary of two chartered flights with Musk’s firm. Isaacman is now within the operating for NASA’s prime job.”
First views of Earth’s polar areas from Dragon pic.twitter.com/3taP34zCeN
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 1, 2025
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