Fram2 will be the first to splash down off the West Coast Update 9:35 p.m.: Fram2 will not only be the first to orbit the poles, but the first SpaceX astronaut crew to launch from Florida and ...

Fram2 is SpaceX's 17th crewed mission overall, and the sixth flown for private customers. The other 11 have been flights to and from the International Space Station for NASA.

SpaceX's private Fram2 mission splashed down today (April 4) at 12:18 p.m. ET (1618 GMT), softly parachuting down into the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Oceanside, California.

The splashdown comes four days after the Fram2 crew were propelled to orbit on the Dragon with assistance from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off at 9:46 p.m. EDT Monday from NASA's ...

Fram2 is the first human spaceflight to Earth's polar regions, a milestone in 64 years of space travel. It set a record turnaround time for human spaceflight from Launch Complex 39A, coming just ...

SpaceX has just launched its first private crew to orbit since the Polaris Dawn mission in September 2024. A Falcon 9 rocket launched the Fram2 crew from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9: ...

All four Fram2 astronauts — Chun Wang of Malta, Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway, Rabea Rogge of Germany and Eric Philips of Australia — have spent significant time in the polar regions of our planet.

The splashdown comes four days after the Fram2 crew were propelled to orbit on the Dragon with assistance from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off at 9:46 p.m. EDT Monday from NASA's ...

The Fram2 crew consists of Chun Wang, who is serving as the mission commander and who purchased the trip, Eric Philips, who is the mission specialist and medical officer, Jannicke Mikkelsen, the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As the SpaceX Fram2 makes history by being the first human spaceflight mission to enter a polar orbit, a neurologist right here in the Lowcountry contributes to this ...