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

The four-person crew, led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, will spend three to five days on a rare flight path around ...

A wealthy bitcoin entrepreneur and three fellow adventurers plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Friday, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California ...

Now Fram2, will build on both Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn, said Kiko Dontchev, SpaceX’s vice president of launch, during a virtual event on Friday. “From a crew training perspective ...

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew mission has gotten to the poles was the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission in ...

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The mission, funded and commanded by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was launched by SpaceX on Monday and has grabbed ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Fram2 watched a SpaceX rocket launch on the way to their launch While SpaceX did not provide media footage of the crew suiting up and ...

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 ...

Spearheading the Fram2 mission is Malta resident Chun Wang ... resulting in “a significant loss of performance for that launch vehicle in terms of how much mass it can put into orbit ...

Chun said the Fram2 mission is expected to last three days and 14 hours from launch to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast.