A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Fram2 astronaut mission
from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The crew is mission commander Chun Wang, vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen, vehicle pilot Rabea Rogge, and mission specialist and medical officer Eric Philips.
"The quartet will circle our planet over both of its poles — a trajectory no human spaceflight mission has ever taken before," according to Space.com
Credit: SpaceX
