As early as this year, four adventurers will head into space and fly in a #polar orbit, says #SpaceX in a press release.
Never before has a spaceflight over the Earth's poles been conducted with humans, according to the American space company.
The commercial astronaut mission has been named #Fram2, after the polar ship used by Norwegian explorers for expeditions in the #Arctic and #Antarctica.
It is funded and will be led by Chun Wang, a Chinese crypto entrepreneur based in Malta.
Among those joining the journey is Norwegian Jannicke Mikkelsen, becoming Norway's first female #astronaut. Mikkelsen lives in Longyearbyen on #Svalbard, where she works as a filmmaker and freelance journalist.
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/spacex-announces-first-human-spaceflight-over-polar-regions
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-spacex-private-mission-1st-human.html
https://futurism.com/the-byte/space-tourists-spacex-first-polar-flight
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