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SpaceX Launches 1st Crewed Flight Over Earth’s Poles

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The first humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles are sending back images from their spaceflight, and the views are incredible.
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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...
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Fram2 will be the 16th crewed mission overall using the reusable Crew Dragon, a gumdrop-shaped spacecraft that SpaceX developed with NASA funding to provide the U.S. space agency a ride for its astron...

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Watch chilling 1st views of Earth's poles seen by SpaceX Fram2 astronauts (video)
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SpaceX successfully launches 1st humans to travel over Earth's poles
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