Reaching New Heights – Over the Poles
In a bold first for human space exploration, SpaceX is set to launch Fram2, a privately funded mission that will carry four civilians into a polar orbit around Earth. If all goes to plan, the Crew Dragon capsule Resilience will lift off from Kennedy Space Center and sweep directly over the North and South Poles, a path “no human spaceflight mission has ever done” before. This ambitious four-day mission, led and financed by Maltese entrepreneur Chun Wang, is rewriting the spaceflight record books even before leaving the ground. Not only will the Fram2 crew become the first people to gaze down on Earth’s polar ice caps from low orbit,
