A unique mission called Fram2, paid for and led by a cryptocurrency billionaire who is flying with three guests, is set to lift off to carry the crew into an orbit around the North and South poles. Follow live news updates.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's space center in Florida on Monday, carrying private astronauts on the Fram-9 mission for the first orbit around Earth's poles. The rocket launched on Monday from Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral as planned and,

New Zealand-based Rocket Lab has launched its third mission in two weeks, marking a new record for the up-and-coming SpaceX rival.

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the north and south poles

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before.

Find out the latest about SpaceX's private Fram2 polar astronaut mission for cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang.

Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch

SpaceX plans to launch the Fram2 astronaut mission over Earth's poles tonight (March 31), and you can watch the action live. Fram2's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule are scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida tonight at 9:46 p.

SpaceX is set to launch a private mission that would send humans on the first polar orbit of the Earth. The four private soon-to-be space travelers climbed aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience on