A crew of four international spacefarers on a private mission will soon seek to become the first humans to travel over Earth's poles.

Who's up for a historic late-night launch? Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a spacecraft carrying the first people to orbit the Earth's poles.

Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch

German startup Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from the Andøya spaceport on Sunday at 6:30 a.m. ET for its first test flight. The rocket successfully lifted off from its launchpad and spent around 30 seconds in the air before it started falling back down toward the Arctic Ocean, creating a massive fireball over the water.