mission specialist and medical officer, were in SpaceX’s Dragon capsule as the company’s Falcon 9 rocket took them to the first-ever polar orbit by humans. The 4.5-hour launch window opened at ...

Few details were publicly released about the classified SpaceX NROL-69 mission, which lifted off at 1:48 p.m. EDT Monday from ...

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The first four humans to orbit Earth’s poles are sharing their experiences from their historic mission. In a discussion with ...

Russia is also losing its role as a pivotal player in space cooperation. Since Moscow’s ties to the West are effectively ...

SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts take the first X-ray images of the human body in space, with a tip-of-the-hat to the first X-ray ...

NEW YORK, April 5. /TASS/. The Crew Dragon spacecraft with the astronauts of the Fram2 mission, during which an entirely civilian crew entered polar orbit for the first time, successfully returned to ...

SpaceX and ULA are set to win a significant US Space Force contract to launch sensitive satellites, while new research uncovers a mysterious human lineage in the once-lush Sahara Desert. Additionally, ...

A wealthy bitcoin entrepreneur and three fellow adventurers plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Friday, ...

The Fram2 mission is named after the Fram ship that was the first to reach Earth’s polar regions in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The quartet became the first humans to ever orbit the planet’s polar ...

Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.Bitcoin ... time behind the lens.Video ...

All four are explorers of extreme places on Earth, such as the polar regions ... Is there a launch today? Upcoming SpaceX, NASA rocket launch schedule at Cape Canaveral During the mission, they plan ...