{"id":21622,"date":"2024-08-14T19:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/introducing-fram2-the-first-crewed-mission-around-earths-poles\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T19:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:01:47","slug":"introducing-fram2-the-first-crewed-mission-around-earths-poles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/introducing-fram2-the-first-crewed-mission-around-earths-poles\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Fram2: The first crewed mission around Earth\u2019s poles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SpaceX announced Monday that a Chinese crypto entrepreneur purchased a flight on Dragon that will fly around Earth\u2019s poles. The mission will feature crew members from three other countries, none from the US, and could launch as soon as late 2024.<\/p>\n

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Private expeditions to the poles aren\u2019t over, they\u2019re just moving to space.<\/p>\n

Chun Wang, a Chinese crypto miner and entrepreneur who now lives in and is a citizen of Malta, purchased a flight on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for an undisclosed amount. Wang has claimed to have mined over 7,700 Bitcoin, worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and founded f2pool and stakefish, tools for the crypto sector.<\/p>\n

Wang dreamed up the idea for the mission, called Fram2 after the Norwegian ship that explored the arctic and antarctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after the launch of the Inspiration4 mission. That was the first free-flying commercial mission by SpaceX, its second, the upcoming Polaris Dawn, were both purchased by billionaire Jared Isaacman.<\/p>\n

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