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Video. All-civilian crew orbits Earth from pole to pole in SpaceX mission
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The mission is expected to last between three and five days, with the crew orbiting Earth multiple times from the north to the south pole at an altitude of around 450 km.
Footage shared by Maltese entrepreneur Chun Wang, who funded the all-civilian SpaceX mission, captures the crew in awe as they glide over Antarctica’s vast white ice sheets.
The Fram2 mission, which launched on April 1 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, saw four people aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
The crew, including Wang, Norwegian film director Jannicke Mikkelsen, robotics researcher Rabea Rogge, and polar adventurer Eric Philips, is set to orbit the Earth from pole to pole. The mission, lasting three to five days, marks the first human flight over both poles from space.
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