About 130 years later, the crew of SpaceX's private Fram2 mission has recreated that X-ray portrait — except in space. The Fram2 mission launched on March 31, carrying a quartet of passengers ...

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 ...

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.

Fram2 was funded by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, who served as mission commander. Chun was joined by fellow polar explorers Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway, Rabea Rogge, from Germany, and ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — After nearly 4 days in orbit around the earth’s poles, Fram2 is back! The crew of four private astronauts led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang splashed down off ...

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 ...

Fram2 is under the command of Malta-based entrepreneur Chun Wang, who paid an undisclosed amount of money to bankroll the mission with SpaceX. Born in China, Wang built his fortune with Bitcoin ...

The Fram2 crew (from left) Eric Philips, Rabea Rogge, Jannicke Mikkelsen and Chun Wang are seen inside the Dragon capsule during splashdown on April 4 in this screenshot from video.

The four astronauts of Axiom Mission 4 were the latest to make a splashdown off the coast of California following a stint at ...