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Private astronauts just became the first people to orbit around the North and South Pole
Not The Bee ^ | April 02, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 04/02/2025 12:33:08 PM PDT by Red Badger

I never get tired of videos like this:

Flat Earthers, our beautiful blue garden planet looks awfully round!

Here's a longer video:

The Fram2 expedition launched on Monday using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Here's the crew:

Believe it or not, there has never been a manned spaceflight that orbits around the Earth's poles. In other words, all other manned missions have orbited around the Earth, not over and under it.

The mission, funded by Chinese cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, is named after the Norwegian exploration ship Fram, the first to complete expeditions to both the North Pole and South Pole from 1893 and 1912.

Fram in Antartica

The Fram2 crew will spend 3 to 5 days in orbit studying the polar regions from space. The team will also take the first X-ray of a human in space and attempt to be the first people to grow mushrooms in space, because why not?

The crew will reenter the atmosphere and splash down in the Pacific Ocean in a few days.

I'll leave you with this video showing the McDonald's PlayPlace window the astronauts get to use!

VIDEOS AT LINK...........................


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; History; Travel
KEYWORDS: chunwang; falcon9; fram2; milehighclub; polarorbit; spaceflight; spacex
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To: Red Badger

Heh heh


21 posted on 04/02/2025 1:34:08 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe they’ll spot the Black Night satellite.


22 posted on 04/02/2025 1:47:48 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: Red Badger

It’s the first good thing to come from crypto. :^) I watched some clips of the ‘nauts doing stuff over Antarctica.


23 posted on 04/02/2025 1:49:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: A strike; SunkenCiv
460 km would be about the 288 Mile high club ..

‘nauts doing naughty stuff over Antarctica?

24 posted on 04/02/2025 1:58:37 PM PDT by null and void (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity. H/T MortMan)
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To: null and void

“Zero-G and lovin’ it.”


25 posted on 04/02/2025 2:05:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Red Badger
And, without a black female on board!

Amazing!

26 posted on 04/02/2025 2:44:26 PM PDT by blam
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