The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel from the North to South Pole under an hour.

This Fram2 mission will send four private astronauts from four different countries into orbit - Chun Wang (Malta), Jannicke Mikkelsen (Norway), Rabea Rogge (Germany), and Eric Phillips (Australia). The mission will take them into low Earth orbit on a trajectory that will pass over both of Earth's polar regions, a first for human spaceflight.

Fram2, the third private spaceflight purchased from SpaceX, is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 31st from Kennedy Space Center. The crew of four, led by cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang, will be the first humans to orbit over Earth's poles.

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before.

A unique mission called Fram2, paid for and led by a cryptocurrency billionaire who is flying with three guests, is set to lift off to carry the crew into an orbit around the North and South poles. Follow live news updates.

SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday -- a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts.

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.

SpaceX successfully launched another historic mission — this time, the Fram2, which will be the first human spaceflight to the Earth’s polar regions.

A unique mission called Fram2, paid for and led by a cryptocurrency billionaire who is flying with three guests, lifted off, carrying the crew into an orbit around the North and South poles. Follow live news updates.