The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

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 ...

SpaceX kicked off 2025 by continuing its record-breaking pace of Falcon 9 launches while also setting new firsts with its ...

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

China launched Thursday what appears to be the third satellite for a subset of classified, experimental satellites bound for ...

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

All four are explorers of extreme places on Earth, such as the polar regions ... p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40.

The international four-person crew returns after nearly four days in space and observing Earth’s poles from orbit for the ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is launched, carrying four commercial astronauts into a 90-degree inclination polar orbit on the Fram2 mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida ...

(Photo from SpaceX video) Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday morning, splashing down off Oceanside to end their privately funded polar tour.

During the nearly four-day mission, Wang, Mikkelsen ... Their core objective was to fly a 90-degree polar orbit, comfortably the highest inclination ever reached by a crewed spacecraft, to ...

The Fram2 mission, named after a Norwegian polar expedition ship that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, had the crew orbit over the Earth’s North and South Poles. The Fram2 mission ...