1st look at polar orbit from SpaceX Fram2 mission
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"Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km [285 miles] above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible."
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By the second morning, I felt completely refreshed. The trace of motion sickness is all gone. We had breakfast, took a few X-ray images, and opened the cupola three minutes after midnight UTC—right a...
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After adjusting to microgravity—and getting through a few bouts of vomiting—the astronauts got to work in polar orbit.
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Space.com on MSNPlush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbitThe first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.
Hello, Antarctica. Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible.”
The four-person crew, led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, will spend three to five days on a rare flight path around Earth’s poles.
The SpaceX passengers, a Chinese bitcoin investor and three explorers, will be on the historic flight for 3 1/2 days.
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The Fram2 crew are the first humans ever to orbit Earth’s polar regions from space as they conduct various experiments, like doing the first x-rays in space.
SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is set for liftoff on Monday at 9:46 p.m. ET, launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch a private crew of astronauts on board a Dragon spacecraft, where they will spend three to five days admiring our planet from a unique polar orbit.
SpaceX continued its dominance of the space travel sector with a new mission to have astronauts circle the poles of the Earth while in orbit.