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SpaceX is set to launch a groundbreaking private human spaceflight mission, Fram2, on Monday evening.
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Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained astronaut on board.
For Fram2, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is using the Dragon spacecraft, which has been extensively deployed in human space missions.
SpaceX will launch its first human spaceflight ever to cruise over the Earth's polar regions on Monday. Four astronauts will be aboard the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule for the Fram2 mission launch, scheduled to lift off at 9:46 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX's cupola is back. The giant glass dome on Crew Dragon gives astronauts jaw-dropping views of Earth, marking a new era in private space travel.
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Space.com on MSNHubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC 346, a star cluster that is home to dozens of massive young stars, fueled by ample amounts of dust and gas.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth - but what has nine months in space done to them?
Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.
A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday night from Florida.