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SpaceX Launches Polar Spaceflight Funded by Crypto Investor
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight mission to fly over the Earth’s polar regions, funded and commanded by cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang.
The mission, called Fram2, after a Norwegian polar expedition ship that operated in the late 1800s and early 1900s, took off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida at 9:46 p.m. local time Monday, carrying a crew of four private astronauts.