SpaceX has achieved a historic milestone with its Fram2 mission, the first private human spaceflight to cruise directly over Earth’s polar regions.
1. Launch Details:
The mission launched on March 31, 2025, at 9:46 PM EDT (April 1, 2025, at 7:16 AM IST) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida.https://www.iasjnana.com/
The spacecraft used was the Crew Dragon capsule “Resilience”, carried by a Falcon 9 rocket.
2. Crew Members:
Chun Wang (Mission Commander): A Maltese cryptocurrency entrepreneur and adventurer.
Jannicke Mikkelsen (Vehicle Commander): Norwegian film director specializing in virtual reality cinematography.
Rabea Rogge (Mission Pilot): German robotics researcher and polar scientisthttps://www.iasjnana.com/.
Eric Philips (Mission Specialist and Medical Officer): Australian polar explorer.
3. Mission Objectives:
Conduct 22 research experiments to advance space exploration and human health in space.
Perform the first X-ray in space and study mushroom cultivation in microgravityhttps://www.iasjnana.com/.
Explore Earth’s polar regions from a 90-degree orbital inclination, a trajectory never attempted before.
It marks SpaceX’s sixth private astronaut flight and expands its dominance in the global human spaceflight arena.
