A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles.

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

A bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers blasted off Monday night on the first rocket ride to carry people over the North and South poles. Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur,

The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel from the North to South Pole under an hour.

On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule rolling out to Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained astronaut on board.

Who's up for a historic late-night launch? Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a spacecraft carrying the first people to orbit the earth's poles Monday.

SpaceX on Monday launched another batch of satellites from Starlink mission launches from Florida on Monday afternoon, about 5 1/2 hours before another Falcon 9 nearby sent a privately funded crew into space.

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Monday (March 31), on the first of the company's two planned liftoffs for the day.