No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

President Donald Trump has nominated space policy expert Greg Autry to be NASA's chief financial officer (CFO), just as he ...

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained ...

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the north and south ...

The Fram2 astronauts launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on a stormy Monday night. Here's what we know about this ...

Mikkelsen, the first Norwegian bound for space, has flown over the poles before, but at a much lower altitude. She was part ...

Astronaut Butch Wilmore told the Washington Examiner he saw the overall mission as a "success" and reflected on the future of ...

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.

Fram2 follows in the footsteps of other commercial spaceflight ventures, including Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn – two missions also bankrolled and led by billionaire Jared Isaacman. In fact, the ...

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