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 ...

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 ...

For Fram2, SpaceX also recycled the Dragon cupola, which had debuted on SpaceX’s first private astronaut mission, Inspiration 4, also chartered by Isaacman. The Fram2 astronauts did not open ...

SpaceX has launched at a rate nearly 34 times higher than United Launch Alliance since the start of 2023, but ULA has more ...

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

(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 ... X ...

The first four humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles have safely returned to Earth.

During the nearly four-day mission, Wang, Mikkelsen ... Their core objective was to fly a 90-degree polar orbit, comfortably ...

Before Fram2, a 1963 Soviet mission called Vostok 6 — carrying Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to travel to space — came the closest to a polar orbit, flying at a 65-degree inclination.