paceX announced on 12th August that the flight will have 4 passengers and will be called Fram2.
This name was chosen to commemorate the Norwegian ship that conducted several groundbreaking journeys to the Arctic and Antarctic between 1893 and 1912.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX officials declared:” Fram2 will be commanded by Chun Wang, an entrepreneur and adventurer from Malta. Wang aims to use the mission to highlight the crew’s explorational spirit, bring a sense of wonder and curiosity to the larger public, and highlight how technology can help push the boundaries of exploration of Earth and through the mission’s research.”
Alongside Chun Wang, on SpaceX Fram2 will be joining the Norwegian cinematographer Jannicke Mikkelsen, who will be the vehicle commander, Australian adventurer Eric Philips, the pilot, and the German robotic specialist Rabea Gogge, serving as the mission’s expert. SpaceX claimed that all four are novices in the spaceflight.
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Following the plan, SpaceX mission Fram2 will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Space Coast this year, propulsing the four crew members to orbit in a Crew Dragon capsule. The SpaceX rocket will not attach to The International Space Station (ISS) but instead will speed around the Earth alone.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX also announced:” Throughout the 3-to-5-day mission, the crew plans to observe Earth’s polar regions through Dragon’s cupola at an altitude of 425-450 km [249 to 264 miles], leveraging insight from space physicists and citizen scientists to study unusual light emissions resembling auroras.”
SpaceX rocket mission representatives added: ”The crew will study green fragments and mauve ribbons of continuous emissions comparable to the phenomenon known as STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement), which has been measured at an altitude of approximately 400-500 km [249 to 311 miles] above Earth’s atmosphere.”
Elon Musk’s Fram 2 team will also examine how spaceflights impact the human body; this research will contain catching the first-ever X-ray image of a human being in space, as stated by SpaceX.
No astronauts or cosmonauts have ever watched the Earth from the angle of a polar orbit, one titled, or inclined, 90 degrees to the Equator. This kind of orbit is preferred by spy satellites, weather stations, and commercial photo-examination satellites because they float around the entire planet as it rotates underneath them.
On the SpaceX mission Fram2 website, it was stated: “The North and South Poles are invisible to astronauts on the International Space Station, as well as to all previous human spaceflight missions except for the Apollo lunar missions but only from far away. This new flight trajectory will unlock new possibilities for human spaceflights.”
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